Word: kingfisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibilities have been only partly explored. "Stand by everybody. We are about to present the comic opera entitled "The Kingfish Departs from his Baton Rouge Aquarium in an Attempt to Get in the National Swim.' A shark named Farley," continues the narrator, "is threatening to gobble up the miserable invader" . . . And won't the senators howl with glee, and the radio listeners each rock back and forth in helpless mirth when they hear a few sombre stooges inquire "what about the public works program and the future...
Political observers for many months have been convinced that Huey will be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination next year. The Washington correspondent for the New York Times has pointed out the change in the Kingfish's attitude during the last twelvemonth. A year ago he was belligerent, but not confident; today he excudes confidence, but has lost much of his belligerence...
...Louisiana. Whatever Huey's purpose was in this latest statement on his future, there is only one thing certain--he will never retire voluntarily from the national stage. Only when the patronizing American public, and the Louisiana portion of it in particular, decides to change its jester will the Kingfish really abandon the political scene...
...dragged a wrangle between Louisiana's Long and Kentucky's Logan. The "Kingfish" was all over the floor, red-faced, arms waving, shouting, whispering. Cried he: "I am not the only man in the United States who does not understand what this thing is all about. . . . We are being rushed pell-mell to get into this World Court so that Señor Ab Jap or some other something from Japan can pass upon our controversies...
Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas, at one point in the debate endeavored to make clear to Huey his position concerning a particular question. The Kingfish replied: "The Senator's position is very clear; but, still, of course, to a mind constructed as mine is, it is not understandable." And Mr. Robinson rejoined: "Of course I am not responsible for that." The Record adds parenthetically, laughter...