Word: rampantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front pages were barren of any real White House news. Congress, still out of the President's control, was loafing along to suit itself. Practically nothing of the President's major 1935 legislative program had yet been blasted out of committee. Inside the Administration jealousy was rampant among the President's staff officers. Some officials, cut off from the White House by a politics-playing secretariat, talked privately of resigning. The President was kept busy inviting disgruntled workers to dinner, turning his charm on them afterward, winning them back to loyalty. Because the President had not brought...
...teas, and stand up all through them. You can't talk well standing up, he says, which just goes to show that he's never met Smedley D. Butler, Hugh S. Johnson or One-Eyed Connolly, or never stood up in a pre-war saloon, where conversation was practically rampant...
...fuller detail the Oxford speakers, Gordon Murray and K. R. F. Steele-Maitland, will base their case on the practical effects of the alliance in the Pacific, its stabilizing power on world exchange, and its soothing effect on war-rampant Europe...
...world which he leaves today is as portentous of fear and uncertainty as that in which he rose to prominence, with rampant nationalism, vainglorious leaders, increasing armaments, clamoring minorities, and assassinated royalty. It is useless to debate whether or not Von Kluck might have changed the history of the world in 1914, as he stood--threatening at the gates of Paris. The fact is that he did not and through his failure the war came to a long, frightfully wasting deadlock. Today the world must guard against the possible resurge of that spirit which the name of Von Kluck connotes...
Last week "Dauphin" Henri seized on the Stavisky and Prince scandals and the general rottenness now proved rampant among officials of the Third Republic...