Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigating committee, Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas, and the head of the manufacturers' tariff lobby, Pennsylvania's Joseph ("Old Joe") Grundy, now a Senator himself by retaliatory appointment of Governor Fisher. In reply to Senator Caraway's sharp jabs and insinuations, Archlobbyist Grundy dropped a remark about "backward commonwealths," implying that Arch-Democrat Caraway came from one. Arch-Republicans were delighted and their most resonant organ, the New York Herald Tribune, printed editorials applauding Mr. Grundy for standing up to "arrogant," "pestiferous," "bumptious," "menacing" Senator Caraway and his "senile gabbling," his "gutter psychology...
This lurid hypothesis was dismissed by District Attorney McGeehan of The Bronx with the remark: "I see no purpose to be served in summoning Terranova." Mr. Terranova himself, interviewed in his Spanish mansion, extensively decorated with stuffed birds, in Pelham Manor, N. Y., denied that he was at the dinner, stated that there is nothing unusual about his limousine...