Word: picayunish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publisher R. L. O'Neal neglected to explain in print that he concocted the apology from his imagination in protest against picayunish criticism of newspaper errors...
...forgotten man" in his political orations.* Rasped General Dawes at his sharpest and shrillest: "It's the mass attitude that controls and. this mass attitude is changing from pessimism to optimism. Take a look at agriculture and the ordinary business of the country and compare them with the picayunish antics on the New York Stock Exchange. The whole country, it seems, is watching a little group of speculators in Wall. Street-a peanut stand affair magnified out of all importance. Damn it all, it's not what the crowd in Wall Street thinks that controls...
...kernels of corn for the hungry child, the drippings from the mouth of the merciful mule! . . . These people are going to suffer beyond the power of human language to portray. . . . When did these picayunish objections to feeding the hungry first appear? They appeared when the income tax payers became afraid of an increase in taxes...
...people sentenced for violating the law, but a decrease in the consumption of intoxicating liquor in the U. S. ... I shall direct the agencies against commercial violations of the law. ... I will not have our agencies following the course of least resistance and wasting their time upon pitiful, picayunish, non-commercial cases. I think the Prohibition laws can be successfully enforced against commercial operations. ... I disapprove sensational methods. ... I do not propose to busy myself with the details of this Bureau so that I will not have opportunity to see, to hear and to think...