Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mess of pottage for which Esau-in-the-Mass would exchange his birthright; it's the sheep's clothing enabling the wolf to slit the throats of the flock; it's a Nefarious Device to Destroy a Nation; it's the Nutty Dream of the alchemist, the Nebulous Desire of the marijuana victim; it's a pain in the neck and a sword in the heart...
...Among ten more vetoes, two were: against Coronado memorial 50? pieces; against J. G. Bucklin of Rehoboth, Mass. who sought $516.12 for 243 turkey eggs destroyed by WPA blasting...
...Franklin Roosevelt's great personal popularity among Negroes, the poor and the underprivileged, Bruce Barton cried: "The fact remains that this mass feeling toward the President is the controlling political influence of our day. To ignore it is blindness, to inveigh against it is political insanity. The intelligent attitude is to admire it, covet it and set industriously and sincerely to work to deserve...
...proposal to confer upon Good Neighbor Roosevelt the title of "Eminent Citizen of America" in honor of his "historical role in the defense of democratic principles." For Cuba's Fourth there were fireworks, concerts, a banquet for U.S. Ambassador J. Butler Wright, a parade and a National Theatre mass meeting in honor of the U.S. attended by President Laredo Bru and Strong Man Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Well might Cuba honor Eminent Citizen Roosevelt's Administration who in 1934 signed a reciprocal trade treaty which lowered the duty on Cuban sugar, helped to restore Cuba's market...
Nowadays the Creole stories of gentle George Washington Cable seem amiable but shrewd, are taken as patent proof that Cable loved his native New Orleans. But when they first appeared he was denounced at mass meetings, damned as a "grim-humored dwarf" who had libeled the good families of the city. Southern literary tempers are not quite so testy now, but they still have a big pinch of gunpowder in them. Latest Southerner to get scorched is 35-year-old Ben Robertson of Clemson, S. C. (pop. 420), whose novel about his ancestors brought on himself the wrath...