Word: moods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mice mood, the tired 76th went home...
...Once the trephining of the skull was over . . . my mood underwent a change. There was a sound of pumping and draining and I could hear the drip, drip of a liquid. Although my brain didn't hurt at all, it did hurt me when one of the instruments fell on to the glass with a sharp, metallic sound. A certain idea passing through my mind hurt me too. It had nothing to do with my present situation...
Today Government spending exceeds Government revenues by about $1,000,000,000 a quarter. By next spring the Government's deficit spending will probably be down to $600,000,000 a quarter. New Dealers, certain of a slump, were last week in a mood to let events take their course in order to tell Congress afterwards "I told you so." If there is no slump-the shoe will be on the other foot. Rather than sit back and tell the country to watch Congress ruin it, New Dealers may yet decide to go their own way and claim credit...
Only too well Mary Norton realized that Barden's amendments would pass on the House floor with a whoop and a holler, in the present rattlesnake mood of that chamber...
...Continued in its mood of last fortnight in bitter night sessions to disembowel Franklin Roosevelt's "Great White Rabbit of 1939." The Republocratic coalition, working as smoothly as surgeons, cut open the $2,490,000,000 Spend-Lend Bill and extracted $500,000,000 for toll roads, tunnels and bridges, $350,000,000 for RFC railroad equipment loans, knifed $25,000,000 from a proposed increase in the loan authorization of the Export-Import Bank, then passed it, sending the emaciated Rabbit to the House. The bill, once totaling $3,860,000,000, now stood...