Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senators often receive editorial comment during hot debates, sympathizers cheering them on, opponents flaying them. To barbed shafts from the side of the arena, Senators usually turn the shield of their dignity or, if they have any, their humor. But when Senator Caraway received in his mail the Herald Tribune's editorials clipped out by a Dr. J. Clarence Sharp of Manhattan who said he thought the Herald Tribune had "great courage," something happened to Senator Caraway. He instantly wrote Dr. Sharp a note of which the following was the main paragraph...