Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austria, awarded high Saracenic orders by the Bey of Tunis. In the U. S., Fairbanks scale were used in every general store, post office and coal yard. Their accuracy was proverbial. Huge freight car scales were supposed to respond to the weight of a wandering chicken. In 1876 Josh Billings described a school mistress as "precise in everything, az a pair ov Fairbanks' improved platform scales...
Oklahoma also furnished Speaker Byrns with Josh Lee. Literally Joshua Bryan Lee, his name like those of other Oklahoma Congressmen is written short on the ballot but his words are long extended, for he was the "national collegiate oratorical champion" in 1916. Something of a poet and artist, he rates today among the most effective speakers in the House. For ten months during the War his oratory was confined to a trench opposite the Hindenburg Line. Fortnight ago when the War Profits Bill was before the House, his oratory burst forth to demand nationalization of munitions plants...
...Washington CWAdministrator Hopkins has made a reputation for himself that is wholly independent of his fortuitous political popularity as the greatest disburser of ready cash in the country's history. Not eloquent as a speaker, he knows how to josh politicians, how to keep them in order. When he got the 1,000 mayors and others together to start the CWA he cut the mayor of Duluth short after two sentences by asking whether he was making a speech or asking a question. When the mayor of Chicago asked a question with a political implication he stopped him with...
When Receiver Moore knocked down the sale of Cosden Oil Co. to Josh S. Cosden here recently Mr. Cosden's answer to West Texans' lusty whoops was not, "All I have to say is if anybody has $501,000 they can have the thing...
Springing; Josh's remark at that time...