Word: idahoan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against any interference with their consumption of daily bread, many U. S. poets protest that that daily bread is so full of holes that it is more like daily starvation. Some of them, to get more literary nutrition, have gone to Europe: Missourian T. S. Eliot lives in England; Idahoan Ezra Pound lives in Italy. Others who have remained at home, as Robert Frost* and the late Vachel Lindsay, have managed on their starvation rations to work out a poetry that presents pinched versions of reality recognizable to other protestant Americans. Still others, fed up with starvation, if not with...
...Deal goes its international way without his aid or advice. When Monopoly was the great issue under Roosevelt I, Senator Borah was in the thick of the fight. Since then political ideology has moved on into fresher fields, more social than economic, with the result that the Idahoan of 1906 is left battling a foe which to 1936 liberals is but hollow husk...
...Ohio primaries to prevent the naming of a favorite son. who would be used to deliver Ohio's convention vote to a boss-picked, Old-Guard candidate. Last week Ohio Republicans scurried about to find a rival candidate to prevent the Ohio delegation from going to the Idahoan by default. Few avowed candidates wanted to risk a possible defeat in Ohio at the Senator's hands...
...Kansas governor, who seems assured of getting the great block of uninstructed delegates at the convention, leads Senator William E. Borah by more than 100 votes, polling 279 to the Idahoan's 167. Herbert Hoover is the third choice of Harvard, with 98 votes...
Senator Borah would have thundered out those startling words in the Senate chamber last week if he had followed verbatim the advice he received in a letter from M. C. Migel, Providence, R. I. silk manufacturer. But no such utterance passed the lips of the ursine Idahoan. Instead, he replied to Mr. Migel's suggestion by mail as follows...