Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finance Committee, the President recommended amending the Social Security Act to provide standard payments for 1,100,000 additional prospective beneficiaries, including 175,000 national & certain other bank employes, 180,000 seamen, and 800,000 persons, now 60 or more who, by the existing statute, would get a small lump sum payment instead of annuities...
Englishman Auden, however, does not allow such a lump of purely democratic emotion to stick in his throat for long. He clears it out with an elaborate, witty, rhymed, five-part letter to hyper-aristocratic English Poet Lord Byron. In this sophisticated, not entirely mock-serious composition, Poet Auden confides his thoughts about English literature in general, about his own life and times in particular, points a pretty straight finger at the hot spot on which up-to-the-minute literates fry perforce. His view of his fellow poets is neither encouraging nor hopeless : . . . many are in tears...
Each year Philadelphia undertakers spend $175,000 of their clients' money for paid death notices in the city's four biggest papers. Just as regularly the Bulletin, Ledger and Inquirer divide $75,000 of this revenue while a $100,000 lump goes to the Record, mouthpiece of Julius David Stern, sonorous Jewish crusader for the New Deal in Philadelphia, New York and Camden...
...Rainey and gangling Joe Byrns, Speaker Bankhead's predecessors under the New Deal, were not men to make the job what it had been theretofore-that of a boss, for whom the House Majority Leader functioned as a sort of floor operative. Furthermore, under the New Deal, with lump sum appropriations to the President, the patronage arrangements for which in previous administrations the Speaker had been a sort of clearing house began instead to be handled much more directly by the White House. Thus the job that, after his 20 years in the House as an able...
After supper tonight Freshmen get their first living, if vicarious, view of the lump of student activity when undergraduate leaders address them from the Brooks House rostrum at 7:30 o'clock...