Word: harrumph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Staid Argentines, whose daughters still may not date without chaperones, could hardly be expected to swallow all this without an occasional harrumph. One oppositionist deputy introduced a bill in Congress to forbid public activity by officials' wives. Earlier this month, naval cadets coughed so pointedly during a newsreel of Evita that their Peronist C.O. saw fit to expel over 20 of them. But the Argentine-in-the-street likes...
...this impasse, some insurance thinkers have been looking for a new, constructive answer. One idea that is causing conservatives to harrumph in the insurance board rooms: that an investment pool for new or expanding industries be formed, with insurance companies sup plying the "senior" capital. Effect: a kind of privately owned RFC. Likelihood: little; the insurance business as a whole is doing too well as it is to be receptive to radical new tinkerings...
First, what about absenteeism? "In my opinion. . . ." John Lewis cleared his throat with a significantly explosive harrumph. "In my opinion absenteeism is a question that runs through the human equation. . . . I have been told that absenteeism is higher in Congress than it is in industry." He leaned a little forward and added, with a slight, royal gesture of his labor boss's sceptre, a cigar: "I notice that absenteeism prevails on this committee this morning...
This touching appeal evoked a harrumph from the New York Times, which sat right down and wrote Deanna a letter...