Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhenish-Westphalia the little city of Solingen boasts that in the record year 1929 its citizens ate 3,484 horses. At picnic parties of Adolf Hitler's famed "Strength Through Joy League" the garlic-flavored sausages joyously washed down with golden beer are of horsemeat. enriched with hog...
...protest re your "Dead Hog & Roast Pork" in the Oct. 28 issue. Granting that one reader's roast pork is another's dead hog," '' don't you think the protests printed were nevertheless indicative of the fact that TIME does word things in such a way that biases may be inferred, though perhaps not intended? Your style is intended to be interesting, and is so, but I personally often feel that in the effort to be interesting, you go too far. We have only just started to take TIME regularly. I have read practically every...
...minute reverse and spurt to climb on the Baldwin Bandwagon, peppery Lieut. Colonel Leopold Stennet Amery, who a few days before had flayed the Prime Minister for "playing with fire" in his threat of sanctions at Geneva, rushed off to his Conservative constituency at Birmingham and went the whole hog in fulsome praise of portly Squire Baldwin whose hobby is raising pigs. All last year Colonel Amery and Mr. Churchill fought the Prime Minister from within his Party on the India Bill. "Winnie" leaped for the band wagon in plenty of time (TIME, Sept. 2) while Colonel Amery last week...
AAAdministrator Chester Davis were early callers, "bringing the President up to date on our activities." To bolster their corn-hog vote campaign (see col. 3), they later got a statement out of the President in which he declared AAA was on the books to stav. "It was never the idea of the men who framed the Act," said President Roosevelt, ". . . that the AAA should be either a mere emergency operation or a static agency. It was their intention, as it is mine, to pass from the purely emergency phases necessitated by a grave national crisis to a longtime, more permanent...
...dead hog for dinner," or I can say "I ate roast pork." In both cases I would be correct. The President could get "scattered cheers," or he could get applause. Both are correct. But "scattered cheers" shows your bias in the matter. In another place, you use the words "My frien-n-nds," as though to deride the President's speech, when "My friends," would do just as well, and carry no sense of a jeer. You will say no such effect is intended, but I am the judge of the effect it produces...