Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should any such thing happen? Labor has called NRA a snare and delusion. General Johnson called it a dead dodo. As a Recovery measure New Dealers have privately admitted it is a flop. Untold manufacturers kick about its theory and its practice. The case of Fred Perkins was a shrill public indictment. The success of its enforcement is compared to that of Prohibition. Certain Senators seize every opportunity to denounce it as an oppressor of honest business. Its advocates are few and its critics many. How can its renewal be a certainty or even a possibility...
...companies after 18 months' delay into NRA. Hardly had the President done so when William Green, who had just come off second-best in an argument with him, declared the A. F. of L. keenly disappointed that the minimum wage of the code was 25? an hour. One kick Mr. Green could not make: that S. Clay Williams, as head of NIRB and erstwhile president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., had been partial to his former industry. The President announced that Mr. Williams had no part in making the code...
Thus after some secret squabbling it was agreed recently to restore the Cunard age limit to 63. White Star masters still retire at 60, but they are better paid, and have no kick. Some three years from now Commodore Sir Edgar Britten will go to the modest head office of the Cunard Line at Pier's Head, Liverpool. There, with appropriate ceremony, he will hand over the burgee personally to his successor. That, according to indications last week, will be the Olympic's Captain Peel...
...Dames of America, Dean Gates told of these "quite charming debutantes, with a background of gin and whiskey bottles and the foreground of a bar-all proudly holding up cocktail shakers-and the notice stated the debutantes 'will serve the cocktail which promises to have a truly elephantine kick.' " Driving his point home, he humphed: "I should think one of the things the present members of the Colonial Dames could do is to protest against some of the things that pass as 'smart' in modern society...
...going to church soon. I'll be rocking my child on my knee and saying dada and goo-goo and oo-ittle-wubbity-wart. Virtues will be sticking out of me like candles out of a birthday cake. Squeeze me and I'll break into prayer. Kick me and I'll recite the Sermon on the Mount...