Word: loafers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Worse was yet to come. As soon as the President's letter-to-preachers came to light, it was discovered that in composing it some loafer in the White House secretariat had, in four paragraphs out of six, plagiarized almost word-for-word a similar appeal sent out to Wisconsin pastors last March by enterprising Governor Philip Fox La Follette...
...with Mrs. Hughes and their chauffeur at Buffalo, N. Y. "I'm sorry, but I cannot give time for an interview," he explained courteously to reporters. "I cannot permit a picture to be taken, either." Thereupon, majestically unaware of a skulking cameraman (see cut') and a dockside loafer who chirped, "Hello, Judge," the handsome, white-whiskered Chief Justice boarded the Great Lakes Transit Corp.'s steamer Juniata, cruised to Duluth, entrained for the West...
...seems as respectable a citizen as George V until he blandly informs the family circle that for years he has been carrying on a private system of inflation with homemade money. First result of this announcement is to rid the home of the trifling in-laws and another pompadoured loafer who has been hanging around Radfern's daughter and trying to borrow money from her father to go into the second-hand automobile business. What happens thereafter is between Scotland Yard and George Radfern, Playwright Priestley and his audience. As Radfern, Edmund Gwenn, oldtime British trouper...
...until last week, when Britain's new national Unemployment Assistance Board took over administration of the dole from local bodies, was it possible to do anything about Loafer Head. Surprised, resentful, Mr. Head suddenly found himself the object of the Crown's displeasure under the new regulation providing that it shall be criminal for dole drawers not to make "honest efforts" to get to work. Swift British Justice cracked down on Frederick Head with a sentence of one month at hard labor, and all over the British Isles dolesters abruptly began to look for work...
When another Laborite accused the Duke of Kent by inference of being a loafer and asked if ?25,000 a year about covered the needs of an unemployed man and his wife, the Prime Minister resumed his seat without deigning to reply...