Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible that the politician may be afflicted with that devastating malady known as 'presidentitis,' which is a burning, itching desire to become President...
...politician who expects to survive every storm that blows should simulate a flurried, harried demeanor, and a nervous-yes, I shall say irritable-nature, as such persons are generally regarded as sincere...
...diet: the politician just before an election should be allowed, at public expense, all the pork he wishes, and he should use plenty of applesauce, as that is the only commodity of which the supply can never equal the demand...
...Rats fumed publicly to the press. Hottest was Tallulah Bankhead: "The action of Mr. George Browne . . . is an outrageous piece of banditry. . . . On what meat does this our Caesar feed? . . . This stock company Hitler should, must be hobbled. . . ." Unhobbled Mr. Browne did not vote, otherwise participated as one union politician among others. The legitimate theatre, the cinema industry, the financial interests involved lobbied fiercely to get the council to settle matters without a jurisdictional strike of Rats on Brownies or vice versa...
...horse-drawn traps and flies pulled up along the main street, and above all, the shady racing park with the thoroughbreds circling under the linden back of the clubhouse before the races?all this makes Saratoga a picturesque American scene. Last week, for the 75th year since an Irish politician named John Morrissey founded the track for the spa's bored cure-takers, the annual August trek to Saratoga began...