Word: profession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmers came in from their chores, stomped their feet, dropped their mittens and sat down by their kitchen stoves to warm their frost-nipped hands. That day no kitchen stove in the U. S. could have thawed out the icy tongues of politicians in Washington. Politicians profess to love nothing better than a good political issue. The best political issue in a decade had just been tossed to them when Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts tore the AAAct into bits (TIME, Jan. 13). Yet the tongues of politicians were frozen stiff with fright-fright of what farmers might...
Knowing that he wanted to surprise the country with a deficit that would look like a trifling puddle beside the oceans of red ink spread on the Government's books during the past two years, many a Washington wiseacre believed the President would profess uncertainty of Relief needs. He might, for example, ask only a billion for Relief. This would lend the budget a cheerful aspect that would last through next year's elections, after which another Congress could appropriate another billion...
...work to date reads like that of any other tycoon of the street who has learned how to make money and employ it wisely. A reader of the Chicago Daily News ever since Candidate Knox took it over, and long before. I have never known it to profess a political creed other than standpat, high-tariffed, hands-off Republicanism, the creed of the American debacle...
...Although professing to be a scientific organization members of this department will proudly profess that they own a magic mirror. Producing this flendish article the Fogg conjurer will let you examine it until you are satisfied that it contains no hidden hingos or occult openings. It appears to be very similar to the other bronze mirrors of the collection, with one surface polished and a design carved on the back. Then, with sleeves figuratively rolled, the master of magic will reflect a beam of sunlight on a wall --and, hocus poems, the design on the back is projected...
Middlemen Cerf, Klopfer and Scherman frequently profess their love of literature but they are no fools. They saw that Story was getting no nearer to standing on its own financial bottom. Last week, in announcing its sale to Dr. Simon, they declared: "Story has grown out of the class where it can any longer be treated as a part-time interest." Mildly Editor Whit Burnett mentioned that the old owners had not given him enough money to expand the way he wanted...