Word: olds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foes hoped to nail his political hide to that barn door, they reckoned without the old Tennessean. To Chicago he went last week with figures in his fist and proceeded to belabor the short-winded old Smoot-Hawley protective tariff scheme, which since 1930 (when it threw up the highest international trade barriers in U. S. history) has lost some of its fighting trim...
...piled one inept act on another, bumbled when the script called for a gag, stumbled over his own and others' feet. In Iowa he denounced corn loans the day the Agriculture Department unloosed $70,000,000 in corn loans to Iowa; in Kansas City he crossed a year-old A. F. of L. picket line for no good reason; in Texas he shot his first deer, his first turkey, was photographed in business suit and starched collar gingerly holding the dead bird-a picture that brought a wave of nostalgic memories to Calvin Coolidge connoisseurs...
Only tough old John Quincy Adams had gone out of the Presidency so thoroughly unpopular. Hoover had labored mightily, with a stubborn and inflexible conviction in the Tightness of his course, only to see his work go down in public ruin. And no U. S. politician except Adams, calmly stepping back to the House of Representatives to make his experience count, had recovered in political or human terms from the consequences of such a defeat...
...walked in the hills behind Palo Alto with Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur, went fishing at the drop of a hat. He took long motor trips, helped raise money for Stanford, talked with old pedagogical friends like Professor Murray (classical literature), Professor Lutz (history), and answered letters that poured...
...defendants were dismissed, leaving Maury to stand alone, his trial raged in a superheated courtroom. A defense witness accused Burkett of once saying he wanted to get rid of Maury. A feminine witness for the prosecution admitted having called Maury "a crumb." Maury's 14-year-old daughter drew a picture of a devil with a forked tail, labeled it "Gittinger" ("Buck" Gittinger, Shock's assistant). Judge Bryce Ferguson, "Ma" Ferguson's nephew, slumped down in his chair almost out of sight, looked up occasionally to quote from memory long passages of law. Defense Counsel Carl Wright...