Word: lamely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their remarks were not addressed to Utah's grim, bespectacled Reed Smoot who as the committee's Republican chairman sat nodding at the head of the long green-baize table. He is a lame duck, soon to fall from his roost. Nor did the witnesses talk to impress Michigan's white-crested Couzens or Pennsylvania's sad-faced Reed or Wisconsin's pompadoured La Follette. All these would soon be in an impotent Republican minority. The man the witnesses knew they were talking to was the tall, rangy, half-bald Democrat who slumped...
...began Representative Ruth Bryan Owen, Florida "lame duck," daughter of the late great William Jennings Bryan, last week at a luncheon given by the Women's National Press Club to the women members of Congress. Clearing her throat, svelte Mrs. Owen read in a husky voice her "Last Will and Testament of a Lame Duck...
...from the office appended to the by line. If the Senate cannot command respect even from its own subordinates, its prestige in the country at large must suffer. And when all this is added to the protracted Bronx cheer which the nation's press has directed at the defenceless lame ducks, there is small wonder that the Senatorial ire is aroused...
...nature of the word prestige if it took definite action on relatively important matters than if it quibbled sonorously over trifles, which, as Barry pointed out yesterday, even Senators have admitted to be true. Such an argument, however, neglects eternal verities. After all, to what end lame ducks and hueylongs? There are only twenty-three days left. On with the dance...
...same day last week the Legislatures of North Dakota and Tennessee ratified the 20th Amendment to the Constitution to eliminate "lame duck" sessions of Congress. They were the 32nd and 33rd States to do so. Next day Idaho and New Mexico fell into line. Then, over the weekend, began a race to see which State would be the 36th which would complete ratification. Favorite was Massachusetts, benefited by one hour in time. Georgia and Utah were champing at the bit. At this point a dark horse developed. In Jefferson City, Mo. members of the General Assembly were secretly telephoned...