Word: pussyfooter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of the Cabinet for a Prohibition change. He hammered home to the President the necessity of the Wet vote if the G. O. P. hoped to carry the North and East. Wearing rubber boots he waded in against the faction of his party that still wanted to pussyfoot. Finally the President was convinced. He consented to the broad proposition that his party should somehow resubmit the issue to the people...
...record is clear. Plain enough to be read by any voter who takes the trouble to keep in touch with things governmental. Garner is pretty consistent and he doesn't pussyfoot. He doesn't pussyfoot on the League of Nations. He doesn't pussyfoot on the war debts. He doesn't pussyfoot on taxation, on which his views are those of the great mass of the common people. He doesn't pussyfoot on anything...
...first to try. Before him went Francis Coli, lost in 1927 with Charles Nungesser; and Walter G. Hinchliffe, lost with the Hon. Elsie Mackay in 1928. Other famed uni-oculars: Golfer Tommy Armour, Reporter Floyd Gibbons, Gatecrasher "One-Eye" Connelly, Admiral Lord Nelson, Reformer William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, "Big Bill" Heywood, Fisticuffer Harry Greb...
...MacDonald Government threatened dire punishment to any British paper which scoops the report before it is officially released. Vol. I two weeks hence. Vol. II four weeks hence. George V and Mr. MacDonald received their copies last week. Current London opinion was that the Simon Report will pussyfoot, will recommend nothing which can bridge the gulf between India and Britain...