Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Alberta's "Robin Hood" and 18-year-old Evelyn Asay's fat little "Sargo." Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel. Finally he waved the Purdue entries aside. Josh Biglands, sawedoff, red-faced herdsman of the University of Alberta, shortened his grip on "Robin Hood's" tether and nudged the Shorthorn steer's feet so that his 1,245 pounds were evenly distributed. Pretty Evelyn Asay, of Mt. Carroll, Ill., just hung on, let her Hereford shift...
Last week the whole Senate had a whack at it. Senator La Follette offered a carefully simple substitute bill (along Treasury lines), was turned down. Senator Josh Lee offered an amendment to "draft wealth" through forced loans, was turned down. But most of the debate centred on an irrelevant amendment by Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan. His proposal: to end tax exemption on interest from all future issues of Federal, State and municipal bonds. Senator Brown, a liberal Democrat who is not always a New Dealer, headed a special Senate committee which has been studying the question...
...Senate. Oklahoma's silver-tongued Josh Lee, who had urged the destroyer deal, and often says what Frank lin Roosevelt wants spoken, cried again: "England's critical need is not for men but for ships, planes and supplies. . . . There fore, I call upon the President to make available to England . . . flying fortresses, bombers, fighting planes and warships." Wailed Isolationist Senator Bennett Clark of Missouri: "If the British ask the President they will get the flying fortresses . . . and almost anything else they want...
Asserting that the Governor was simply a friend of Oklahoma utilities, Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee, friend of the dam, declared on the floor of the U. S. Senate: "Who gains by wrecking [this dam] ? . . . The utilities gain. . . . This is only a smoke screen intended to hide the real issue, which is whether or not the people shall have cheap electricity." Said engineers, if the dam is not closed and water is allowed to rush through the gates it will cause thousands of dollars of damage, wash out Oklahoma's immediate prospects of cheap electricity. Only hope...