Word: pussyfoot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this talk about the young folks going to the dogs and drinking themselves blind is pure nonsense. They are youthful and filled with sap and vinegar, but that does not mean that they are a gang of inebriates." In such a manner, W. E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, former Federal prohibition agent, smilingly told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday that college men today are "all right...
...There is no possible chance for a real Baptist to pussyfoot, or make a detour around the deity of Jesus Christ" said Reverend James W. Brougher, D.D. of California at the opening meeting this week of the Northern Baptist Convention at Washington. And thus again appears in public print one of those examples of poor taste so often a part of modern ecclesiasticism...
...talk of the leader of one's faith, even the meanest, in connection with "pussyfoot" and "detour" is to lower the esteem for that leader, held by the most fervent, provided the most fervent has retained his sense of the eternal fitness of things. This convention is about to make a compromise so that those who favor complete immersion and those who do not can continue in the same church without words of little wisdom and much bitterness. In the role of advocate for moderation and compromise Dr. Brougher has, in his category at least, a decent part to play...
From Manhattan, the Times sent radiograms poking around Europe in search of Correspondent Eyre, who could not be found. The wireless editor pulled out the original despatch. With the usual economy of words it read: "Pussyfoot arrived Germany intending make it second Sahara," which seemed ample justification for the rewrite man to have written: "William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, well known Dry crusader...
Then, at last, the radio found Correspondent Eyre, who indignantly replied that his original wireless read "Pussyfoots" not "Pussyfoot," that he did not have reference to the one-eyed, but to the general species of professional prohibitionists...