Word: heels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rudolph Walgreen repeat his charges that the University of Chicago turned his buxom niece Lucille Norton into a Communist. California's legislature, angered by 18 University of California professors who ventured to protest its anti-radical bill, toyed with another bill which would bring U. of C. to heel by dismissing its Board of Regents...
...half in front. Roman Soldier closed strongly, four lengths ahead of Whiskolo who ran second to him in the Texas Derby. Nellie Flag, favorite when an intermittent drizzle started to put a skim of mud on the track, ran fourth. Other favored horses-Today, who bruised a heel day before the race; Boxthorn, who had a sentimental following; Plat Eye, who tired after a mile-were far back in the field...
...helped nominate, definitely would have no truck with him. The Administration, in fact, lined up against him, gave him no patronage, indicted his friends for income tax evasion. He began, according to his custom, a campaign of retaliation, singling out Postmaster General Farley as the Administration's Achilles heel. Democratic leaders thought they had to reply and in no time public interest filled the Senate galleries whenever Senator Long appeared on the floor. He became a national character, which from his standpoint was both enjoyable and profitable...
...derailed the President's $4,880,000,000 relief bill (TIME, March 4). Dead set against putting the Government in direct competition with the private construction industry, the President had thereupon left Washington anticipating that the outraged voice of a loyal nation would soon howl the Senate to heel...
...resent your referring to our State as scrubby, down-at-heel...