Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between a teacher and a politician, declared Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee in addressing a teachers' conference at Albany, N. Y. last week, there is this difference: A teacher makes his bed and lies in it; a politician makes his bunk and lies...
Wedgwood now boasts seven active direct descendants of Josiah I. Family tradition has it that each generation have a Josiah. Present Josiahs are No. 6 ("Colonel Josh"), who has been a Labor M. P. for 32 years, and No. 7, who is managing director of the firm. No. 1's sympathy for the American colonies has proved prophetic. Of the 2,000,000 pieces of pottery the Wedgwoods make and sell for about $1,000,000 each year, over 50% are sold in the U. S. and Canada, where the favorite pattern is undecorated, embossed, cream-colored. So vital...
...once in the kitchen, ready to operate, "Pop" was content. While the instruments boiled, he tried to josh the patient into feeling as confident as he did, sometimes had them offering to sharpen his tools. When one kitchen was too small, he set up his plank-&-barrel operating table under an apple tree. But despite these primitive conditions, says Hertzler, post-operative infections were not more frequent than in modern hospitals. The secret of successful operations, says Hertzler, is not a fancy operating room but thorough knowledge of anatomy and speed. In his own clinic, built with many a headache...
...World War veteran professing Indian descent. On the speakers' list with headline peace material were such names as New Jersey's Governor Hoffman, New York's Governor Lehman, New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee. Getting in his political oar, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg declared. "It is none of our business, as neutrals, what the effect of our neutrality will be upon anybody but ourselves...
...motion was voted down 35-10-27. A moment later, Republican Leader Charles McNary, missing no tricks, moved to recess. Bells rang again in the corridors and a second roll call was begun. Senators began appearing through the swinging doors to answer to their names. Freshman Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma came in and rushed to Leader Barkley...