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...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...
Curious is the fact that U. S. and British news organs, when libeling or exposing, make incessant use of such phrases as "alleged," "charged," "understood." Legally it is quite as libelous to pussyfoot, "John Doe is an alleged swindler," as to boldly print, "John Doe is a swindler." Psychological explanation: writers and editors feel safer when they pussyfoot, as do ostriches with heads in sand...
Where might be the-last-place-in-the-world that prohibition agents would look for a moonshine still? One such place might be the clump of trees in the field behind the barn on the farm belonging to Dry Crusader William Eugene ("pussyfoot") Johnson near Smithville Flats, N. Y. So thought some shrewd person. Last week, in the clump of trees in the field behind the barn of Crusader Johnson-who visits his farm only in the summer-State troopers found vats, stoves, coils and 14 copper boilers to contain 200 gallons...