Word: pussyfooted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, prohibition fanatic: "Before sailing from Manhattan for Europe, I told newspapermen that in a six-months' tour of America I had seen only four intoxicated people. Said I: 'These United States are a Sunday School compared to what they used to be. This talk about gin and petting parties is, for the lack of a better word, bunk I'" Alphonso XIII of Spain: "John D. Rockefeller and I were elected foreign associate members of the French Academy of Arts?I to replace the late Joaquim Sorolla y Bastida, Spanish painter; Mr. Rockefeller to fill the vacancy...
...Christian Science Monitor published a bit of correspondence dated "Cairo, Jan. 1." This is in accordance with the theory of the Monitor that anything is news until it is known. The specific result savored of the ludicrous. The correspondence gave an account of the activities of William Eugene (Pussyfoot) Johnson in Egypt. At the time of its publication Mr. Johnson had been in the U. S. for several days, had attended a convention of the Anti-Saloon League, had seen the President (TIME...
...send him into Lake Erie." W. J. Bryan: "No matter which party wins, this country stays dry forever." More than a thousand delegates to the convention assembled in a driving rain before the White House and sang hymns-Onward Christian Soldiers, etc. The President appeared on the portico and Pussyfoot Johnson pledged to the President the cooperation of those present in enforcing Prohibition. Mr. Coolidge spoke: "It is a satisfaction to receive the assurances of such a body of men and women that they have a firm determination to abide by the laws of the land, and that they propose...
William Eugene (" Pussyfoot") Johnson: "In Kansas City, Mo., I declared: 'The liquor situation is getting better. Every country in the world is watching America...
...Begs Cambridge men not to mob Sims", reads a caption in yesterday's paper. But the circumstances are not so alarming as they might seem; the Admiral is not threatened with the fate of "Pussyfoot" Johnson. If he is manhandled at all, it will be because the over-enthusiastic Englishmen of Cambridge have once again forgotten their sense of propriety. The Senior Proctor, who, it would seem, is the University's chief guardian of manners, has written to an undergraduate weekly, reminding the students that two years ago they "did in fact cause inconvenience and embarrassment to certain distinguished soldiers...