Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heaped around him. In a daze the House passed the bill, 206-to-139. With Mr. Ramspeck to the White House last week must have marched the ghosts of all the Presidents who have been harassed to desperation by appointments; President James A. Garfield, slain by a disappointed office seeker; perhaps even the shadow of Louis XIV, who said: "Every time I fill a vacant office I make 100 malcontents and one ingrate...
...startled receptionist of Manhattan's Roman Catholic Church of the Guardian Angel found this abject fatness slobbering, went to fetch Father Rinschler. The shuddering fat man looked up and shrieked: "Three men are waiting out there to kill me." Father Rinschler called the police, who dragged the sanctuary-seeker away, still gobbling like a terrified turkey...
...could laugh at your homey little piece on Dr. Westrick, the Fuhrer's latest appeasement-seeker in the U. S., if I was sure that no lame-brained tycoons would be taken in by its disarming simplicity...
...picnic in the country, glowering over some knotty problems at a meeting of the City Council, or mopping the heat of a burning summer day from his plastic countenance. Then there was that tragi-comic look of hurt surprise as he struck back at the disappointed job-seeker who had assailed him on the steps of the City Hall. He was the first man to arrive at the scene of a subway accident, the booted and helmeted director at every big fire, and the first male to dare express his disapproval of women's hats. Speaking over a nation-wide...
...effort to calm the crowd, which was growing sullen with cries of "Down With Sullivan" and "Make Sullivan Speak," George Robert Stange '42 delivered an address explaining the delay. Branding Sullivan a "publicity seeker" and a "red-baiter," Stange stated that some unidentified person had called Sullivan the night before to reveal that a Leftist play was being put on at Harvard...