Word: nay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question remained: Should Halsted L. Ritter be "forever disqualified to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States?" It was put to a vote. Seventy-six Senators voted "Nay," none voted for the extreme penalty...
...still flowery explanation leaves a modern reader in doubt whether he had spent the interim in the gutter or had just not felt like writing: "After a time came rebellion and reckless grasping after life or what bore the semblance and wore the red flower of life, careless whether-nay, even glad if its heart were poisoned. I took-O sweet and noble soul, this will pain you cruelly, but I must tell it-I took the ring from my finger, for it burnt my flesh with its impossible summons and its intolerable reproach." Three weeks later he wrote that...
...recognized monstrosities as the Wagner Labor Hill, the Guffey Coal Act, and the N. R. A. The idea that a President should have the power to bribe districts of non-sympathetic voters with direct cash payments is unbelievable. But to have the effrontery to make these payments for nothing,--nay, for less than nothing, for refraining from doing something productive and constructive for the country--, transports one to the realms of Alice in Hades...
...Premier subjected him to a torrent of demands that he speak instead of "our country." This he thereafter did with evident galling bitterness of soul. In their element were the forces of French antiFascism, led by millionaire Socialist Leon Blum. "Mr. Premier' he crushingly observed, "I am surprised, nay I am amazed, to see that you are still 'Mr. Premier.' There are some mistakes which a public man does not have the right to survive...
...Jefferson City, Mo., when the State Legislature voted to turn over the House Chamber to the convention of the P. E. O. Sisterhood, Representative Louis E. Browning voted nay, stayed at his desk throughout the women's convention...