Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commonly accepted as harbingers of winter. In both cases radical leaders were quick to capitalize on hunger and cold. Yet the Administration in Washington refused to be hustled into any determination of its relief plans to combat this form of discontent. Administrator Hopkins went out of his way to poke fun at Republican Ogden Mills who had declared in a campaign speech that there would be 20,000,000 people on relief by January...
...money from you. Methodism, vised by its geographical Bishop, promised to repay the money owed you. Methodism, in the particular locality which initially owes you, whines its inability to pay its honest debts. Yet, this same sunny California brand of Methodism finds ways to yearly send $65,000 to poke their noses into the business of foreigners-of Chinamen alone, and, if you please, of Chinamen only in Foochow, In that...
...Soviet Russia to enter the League of Nations.** Strongly urging this, Sir John cried to the House of Commons: "Which do you prefer, this immense power [Russia] inside or outside the collective system of the League?" He then took a remarkable poke at League-Quitter Japan: "I neither wish to proclaim Japan the King's enemy nor Soviet Russia as my special friend! . . . Certainly we are prepared to welcome Russia warmly to the League of Nations if Russia makes application. We are satisfied it will contribute to the peace of the world...
Grey, gangling Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray, by law prevented from succeeding himself, staked his political poke on Tom Anglin, Speaker of the State House of Representatives...
...Jilson Setters has earned wide publicity for Miss Thomas' folksong society. When he arrived in Manhattan to sail his bag gage consisted of one extra shirt, a quilt his grandmother had made, a gourd for a drinking cup, a corncob pipe and his fiddle wrapped in an oilcloth poke. He came, he said, from Lost Hope Hollow and he was going to see the King. Ashlanders have since said that there is no such place as Lost Hope Hollow, that Jilson Setters' real name is William Day. never much of a mountaineer, but an oldtime beggar...