Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Palm Beach...
...occasion was the Democratic Party's Jackson Day Dinner in Washington. The meal cost 2,000 diners $50 per plate- $5 for food and $45 for the Party's campaign chest. When he had eaten tomato stuffed with lobster, diamondbacked terrapin soup, breast of capon, hearts of palm salad and other things, the 32nd President of the U. S. arose and broadcast as follows on the 7th President...
...blatancy the palm went to the Denver Post, which concentrated in color on Colorado's contributions to the Union. Something of a record for frankness was set by the Boston Transcript, whose financial editor Laurance P. Morse observed in connection with business forecasts: "This annual folly has gradually come to have the sanction of years and with it a sort of gentlemen's agreement . . . that no one shall check up on what the other one said last year...
...admit that the historical novel of today stacks up favorably alongside its peers of yesterday. Though past-partisans might not allow Robert Graves's Claudius books, Alfred Neumann's The Devil, Lion Feuchtwanger's Power and Josephus, Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers the palm over such classics as Defoe's The Journal of the Plague Year, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Flaubert's Salammbo, critical consensus would be that the modern exponents are obviously better grade than run-of-the-mine romanticists like Walter Scott, Charles Reade et al. Lion Feuchtwanger...
...most distinguished and worldly men in the realm, William George Tyrrell, Baron Tyrrell of Avon, holder of Britain's No. 1 diplomatic job, the Ambassadorship to France, from 1928 to 1934. Lord Tyrrell accepted the job because he needed the money. Lord Tyrrell knows the Continent like the palm of his hand, loves France and is distrusted by Germans. When he quit his Ambassadorship last year because of poor health, the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter chortled, "His departure is a gain for the pacification of Europe and exorcises the baneful Versailles spirit he fostered. Lord Tyrrell...