Word: mackerels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Empyreumatical Mackerel...
...remark about the empyreumatical mackerel (TIME, May 26), Mr. Fly was on the right scent, but he failed to tell us anything about his authority for the quotation. Crabbed, although highly interesting, John Randolph of Roanoke shot it at Henry ("Mill-boy of the Slashes") Clay. His exact language seems to be in dispute. Bartlett puts it: "So brilliant, yet so corrupt, which, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, shines and stinks." Personally one better likes the version employed in the life of Randolph, in The American Statesmen series of biographies: "Like a mackerel in the moonlight, he shined...
...Constitution was dead as a mackerel. Bit by bit over the last four years the Supreme Court had killed it-as man by man Franklin Roosevelt put new Justices on the bench...
...reporters, whom he has distrusted ever since he was TVA's general counsel, he roared: "Leave me alone!" Next day he issued a sharp statement in reply. He said the N.A.B. management was like a remark by John Randolph of Virginia: "It reminds me of a dead mackerel in the moonlight, it both shines and stinks...
...World War I, taxes were enacted for revenue only. Biggest single fact about the new tax bill is that taxes for revenue alone are as dead as a mackerel and will remain so until the war is over...