Word: pussyfooter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Next day alert Peorians learned that Lincoln Eyre, able correspondent of the New York Times, had cabled an interview which William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson had just given him in Berlin, Germany (TIME, April 5, GERMANY...
...York Times, hastily queried, vouched for the veracity of Mr. Eyre, secured from Wayne B. Wheeler (super-prohibitionist syndicated by the New York Times) a statement that Pussyfoot was certainly abroad, probably in Berlin...
...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...
...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...