Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Second. An ex-President invariably got to be an ex because a party diametrically opposed to his own defeated him at the polls. Why should any given party be saddled with its defeated opposition? An ex-President can comment, advise, warn, appraise, effectively enough as it is. He assuredly should not be allowed to make policy in foreign relations- since home policy under the serving President largely determines foreign policy...
...these last cases the soul of Frank Murphy may be tested to the uttermost, for the political explosive in them is nitroglycerin, not common black powder as in New Orleans and Kansas City. Yet none of his friends suspects for a second that the soul of Frank Murphy will fail the test...
...sent, as Lord Runciman was to Czecho-Slovakia in August 1938, to find that the disputed area wasn't worth squabbling over (Downing Street denied it); a personal emissary of Neville Chamberlain's sent behind his own Government's back to pave the way for a second Munich agreement; perhaps just a crank...
...foot sweep of canvas, laid down his brushes, and thereby made news. For John Steuart Curry, in the ten years since he first hit his stride with a picture of violence called The Tornado, has become the most notable of U. S. regional artists. And his canvas was the second of two oil-and-tempera murals that will be -lifted into place next autumn on the walls of a corridor facing the General Land Office, on the fifth floor of the new Department of the Interior building in Washington...
...second panel, entitled The Homestead and the Building of the Barbed Wire Fences, is a scene of Territorial industry. In front of a sod house a woman and child pare potatoes; near by, on a wagon, the farmer with a sledge hammer drives a fence post in the ground. The foreground is shielded by rain clouds, but the sun strikes through beyond, lighting up a distant pasture. Observed Painter Curry: "Building the barbed wire fences closed forever the open range, and behind these fences developed a different economic and social order." Both panels are nine by 20 feet, painted...