Word: pussyfooter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliant defense, resounding with rich invective against Marlborough's Tory enemies: Harley, St. John, Queen Anne, Dean Swift. But it adds up to something less than Author Churchill intended. What he proves, chiefly, is that Marlborough was merely no worse than his enemies. They signed a pussyfoot treaty at Utrecht but probably prevented a revolution of the war-weary English masses. They drove Marlborough to exile, but he revenged himself with interest when he returned to riches and honors at Queen Anne's death. They hatched the great South Sea Bubble swindle, but Marlborough forced the Government...
Socialist leader, M. Leon Blum, whose party is the largest in the Chamber, was forced to pussyfoot. He came out in his newspaper Le Populaire thus: "We do not seek to exploit against Edouard Daladier the difficulties which he has created for himself. The hour is too grave for that. But it is necessary that he be warned, if he has not already been. For repeal of the social legislation or for a reversal of attitude toward the working class, let him not count on the Socialist Party...
...Syracuse, 74-year-old William Eugene ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, famed Anti-Saloon Leaguer, heartily endorsed Senator William Edgar Borah's candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination but declared he would make no speeches for the Idaho Dry because: "The more I make, the wetter the country gets...
...driving last year, the total was below the 1928-31 average. That the nation definitely had its back turned on Prohibition sentiment was evident at the 28th annual meeting of the Anti-Saloon League of America in St. Louis, at which nothing was new but the songs. William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson deplored the sale of 3.2% beer. Bishop James Cannon Jr. was named to head the League's revived National Legislative Committee. Francis Scott McBride was once more elected General Superintendent. There were no new faces, no new ideas. The League, predicting the return of national Prohibition, reaffirmed...
...Last January," he said, "France began to 'pussyfoot' in her relations with Italy, trying to smooth over former antagonism. Friendly advances were made, and semi-official approval was given to Italy's actions in Ethiopia. The underlying principle in this move was in keeping with her entire foreign policy: i.e. that an ally against Germany is worth the entire African continent...