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...Peoria, Ill., the people who favor prohibition know William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson. Some have seen their hero in times past. Many have seen his pictures, know well his single eye. So when it was advertised that William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson would speak in person, not by radio?hundreds tumbled out into the inclement, spring, into a bandbox auditorium. Listening to the one-eyed one, their hearts warmed, their ideals revived, their purses opened...
...have mortgaged their crops. There a few desperate vintners met to consider the advisability of an appeal to President Coolidge. They were vexed when informed that the President could not suspend the U. S. prohibition laws to rescue the hard pressed German producer. They were outraged when William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson,' famed itinerant U. S. dry crusader, arrived at Berlin, last week and predicted: "Within 25 years Germany will have become so dry they will be putting the last steins in museums...
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...
...Astoria Hotel (Manhattan), highest paid hotel executive in the world ($50,000 per annum), inventor of Oscar Sauce; with his wife for a three-months' tour in Europe?his first vacation after 41 years of uninterrupted work in the U. S.; David Warfield; William J. Burns; 52 Boy Scouts; "Pussyfoot" Johnson to convince the Moslems, the Indians and the Ceylonese that drinking Scotch whiskey is wrong...
...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...