Word: licking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaigned for Roosevelt in 1932, but by 1936 he could no longer contain his bitterness. He invented the term "alphabet soup" to describe the plethora of New Deal agencies, spoke for Alf Landon, and warned the U.S. sarcastically that "You can't lick Santa Claus." Then he quit politics. His last years were quiet but busy. He became Honorary Curator of the Bronx Zoo, president of the long-empty Empire State Building, a director of a half-dozen corporations. He was one of the nation's great Roman Catholic laymen, and in 1937 he visited the Vatican...
...17th-century English noblesse, has a soul the simplest of women will understand. Love's tide has ebbed, leaving her stranded high & dry with two children and a dim flibbertigibbet of a husband (Ralph Forbes) who seems almost to encourage his wolfish crony Lord Rockingham (Basil Rathbone) to lick his chops at her. Dona is sick of London's mad social whirl, sick, sick, as she tells her husband, of "the stupid futile life we lead here." Finally, one dawn, she packs up and flounces off with her children to their country estate on the Cornish coast...
...Oyster Bay Roosevelt came out for Franklin D. She was the widow of Teddy's son, Major Kermit Roosevelt (who died last year while on active duty in Alaska). Said she, offering her services to the Democratic National Committee: "I'll do anything, even lick envelopes...
Last week Dr. Hilleboe's chief, Surgeon General Thomas Parran, remarked: "It looks as if we are going to be able to lick T.B. as a public health problem...
...most overexpanded industries, the two which will probably be cut back the deepest when the war ends. If California can keep its millions at work when the war ends their jobs, then the rest of the U.S., watching California's tactics, ought to be able to lick its full employment problem...