Word: losers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Also scrapped was the so-called "Davis Plan." Mr. Davis had proposed to disband the present Disarmament Conference "before Christmas" with a treaty consolidating gains thus far made, and to create a Permanent Disarmament Committee which should function down the ages. All that went glimmering. Mr. Davis, a sporting loser, raised his glass at Mr. MacDonald's luncheon to toast what all the guests had achieved that morning when they signed their Geneva Declaration...
...Campbell Bascom Slemp, Calvin Coolidge's onetime secretary, paid an election bet by shipping a ton of coal from Camden to Washington by air (cost: $147). In Louisville, one Charles Jernigan won two white chickens for his pot. In Omaha. Loser Lillian Zack carried Winner Remus Jobe down Leavenworth Street in a wheelbarrow. At Los Angeles, Hooverite Will Healy let Rooseveltian Manuel Alonzo pitch 24 rotten eggs...
...cost of American exchange to countries with a depreciated currency, the American tariffs, and other difficulties besetting all nations at present a readjustment is but common justice. Unless sentimental and "moral" considerations are set aside and economic realism substituted for them in America's attitude she will be the loser. The American people cannot seem to realize this. The only hope perhaps a forlorn one is that their representatives are wiser...
...Richey. Just before 9 o'clock Richey said: "We have conceded nothing yet." Mrs. Hoover was preparing a buffet supper when Jack McDowell, Stanford's alumni secretary, came out and read the message of defeat. After a moment of silence, every one applauded, meaning to acclaim the loser's gallantry. Floodlights on the roof lighted the faces of several hundred Stanford students who now were massing around the house. "S I S S-B O O M-A H. . . . HOOVER!!" roared the students...
...statements of fact. Their versions of what happened in the past become so distorted by their anxiety to persuade that they are positively grotesque. One can watch the process of intellectual disintegration as the candidates keep on talking through the interminable weeks of the campaign. In this atmosphere, the loser generally resorts to a whirlwind campaign, and the winner is greatly tempted to make promises in all directions...