Word: heflinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thin partitions of the Senate Office Building make such a consideration imperative. During the last Congress Senator Glass was obliged to telephone Senator Heflin in an adjoining office a request not to denounce him so loudly?he had heard it all and was tired...
...Birmingham, Ala., the editor, the managing editor and a reporter of The Birmingham Post published an article telling that a man on trial for murder had also been indicted for flogging and kidnapping. Judge H. P. Heflin of the Circuit Court cited them for contempt of court, because their articles " prejudiced " the cause of the man on trial for murder...
...pointed out that they had expressed no opinion of the guilt or innocence of the alleged murderer; that they had simply told the facts about the man on trial. Mr. Baker insisted that freedom of the press is as important as the right of free speech. Judge Heflin replied that the court was higher than the newspaper, and that liberty of the press was secondary to human liberty. So he sentenced the three newspaper men to a day in jail without leave to appeal their case...
...first four letters. From the same source came a more recent addition to the American vocabulary, the word "humorically" which is seen to have a shade of meaning all its own. A Senator's mind fired by the spell of oratory may reach untold heights, and so from Senator Heflin comes a whole new phrase, "multifarious digniminity", a true stroke of genius...
...direct cost of Congressional and Senatorial eloquence-especially that of Mr. Heflin...