Word: pussyfooter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, Lady Astor, as determinedly dry as the late "Pussyfoot" Johnson, auctioned off some gin to raise funds for a memorial to a friend. She peddled the treacherous stuff at $60 a bottle. But her conscience was presumably at ease, since she began her pitch with a rousing temperance lecture...
Died. William Eugene ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, 82, genial, world-famed prohibition zealot; of a bladder ailment; in Binghamton, N.Y. No fainthearted saint, Boozebuster Johnson admittedly lied, bribed, even downed drinks to pile up evidence against the Demon Rum. Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 to combat bootlegging in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), he got 4,400 convictions, lost five deputies, shot. On a teetotaling world tour in 1919, he cheerfully lost an eye but won admirers in a free-for-all slugfest with unregenerate London tipplers. Quiescent since 1929, Crusader Johnson once confessed: "The more I talked, the wetter the country...
...organization. His conception of a permanent peace organization was squarely in line with the plans submitted to Dumbarton Oaks, but with this difference: "I believe this is a subject which should be talked about widely, earnestly, and publicly. . . . We cannot meet the problems of peace on any hush-hush, pussyfoot basis. . . . That world organization must be the work of many minds. No one man, or three or four men, can shape it. Some 60 nations, great and small, must help shape it, believe in it, join it, and make it work...
Later Dr. Coffin explained his bluntness: "This was my swan song, so I could say what I pleased." Asked if a new moderator could not express himself similarly, he retorted: "Oh, yes. But the number of brethren who pussyfoot is large. What...
Dartmouth's guards, Captain Stan Skang and Jim Briggs, do less scoring than their teammates, but they are potent characters in the backcourt. Where Dartmouth asserts its superiority over anything the Ivy League has to offer is in its style of play. No pussyfoot, stand-and-set, cut-once-a-week Eastern court tactics for these babies; they run all night, cut like deer, and throw one-handed shots from behind their ears in the best Big Ten tradition. It pays...