Word: rump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, President Roosevelt conferred with his Cabinet, then declined to intervene. Secretary Perkins declared that Mediator McGrady would yet solve the "regular" West Coast strike, dismissed the Eastern strike as that of a "rump organization." Other highlights...
...Rump Fair, It is a terrible thing for two cities to be only 33 miles apart. When Fort Worth heard that Dallas was to be the centre of Texas Centennial, her pride was pinched. Amon Carter and friends had got only a quarter of a million out of the Federal grab bag, but they determined to outdo Dallas. They sent for Fanny Brice's husband, little Billy Rose, most grandiloquent of U. S. showmen, the author of Barney Google. Presented to him was a contract reputedly for $1,000 a day for 100 days. Promptly Fort Worth...
...embittered soul, a keen eye for the grotesque and a liking for the rough & tumble life of taverns and streets. David Blythe painted drunks, loafers, pickpockets, runaway horses, grinning bill-collectors, swaying stagecoaches. With warm colors and swift, vigorous draughtsmanship, he poked fun at such everyday events as the rump-bumping scramble for mail in Post Office (see cut) or a lawyer braying at a gaping jury in A Court Room Scene...
Saying that a letter signed by seven of the nine members of the executive committee of the Harvard Student Union was "written by what might be called a rump of the executive board" is of course making a statement of which any member of the League of Yellow Journalists should be proud. Commendable from this point of view also is the implication that the former president of the Peace Society and the Phillips Brooks House representative on the committee (both of whom led the opposition to national affiliation) are members of a "tireless and determined radical group" merely because they...
...honestly believe that national affiliation will be without effect upon the policies and activities of the Harvard Student Union. The letter, printed elsewhere on this page, and written by what might be called a rump of the executive board in spite of its shadowy claims to unanimity, shows a frantic grasping for the integrity surrendered by last Thursday's vote...