Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Hamilton Fish's strictures on the New Deal seem to have overtaxed his native stock of invective and sent him quarrying in the works of our early masters of vituperation. His recent characterization of the WPA ". . . Like a dead mackerel in the moonlight, it stinks and shines and shines and stinks" (TIME, July 18), rather ineptly retains the stench but loses the shine of the original simile which eccentric John Randolph of Roanoke applied to Edward Livingston over a century ago: "Fellow-citizens, he is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. Like rotten mackerel by moonlight...
Franklin Roosevelt had no sooner finished fishing in Mexico's Pacific backyard last week than Secretary Hull sent Mexico a note about expropriation-without-compensation. The document was remarkable not only for force and color unusual in the State papers of Cordell Hull,* but because it was really many notes in one- carbon copies to all Latin-American neighbors and a copy to the U. S. electorate...
...beat Gomer Smith in Oklahoma (see col. 1), he put some cash into Son Elliott Roosevelt's pocket. Correspondent Bascom Timmons on the President's train was offering 3-to-1 on Smith until Elliott's father spoke for Thomas at Oklahoma City. Then Elliott sent for Timmons, who protested the odds had changed, were now 8-to-10. Elliott agreed to the odds but refused to bet "chicken feed." badgered unhappy Timmons into betting...
...winter of 1907, Manhattan had its most celebrated operatic scandal. Critics scolded, pulpits seethed. The solemn, stiff-collared directors of the Metropolitan Opera House went into a huddle, sent a word of warning to harried Director Heinrich Conried. The grounds for this protest were moral. Its cause was a new opera which had just been given its Metropolitan premiere. In the opera a necrophilic heroine disrobed before her gloating, drunken stepfather, demanding as the price of her strip tease the head of an imprisoned prophet. To the severed head, duly served up on a platter, she made more or less...
...your spiritual counterpart was to breathe deeply. To public opinion, that sounded like Free Love. The stories of how Dinah went every day to the laboratory to nurse the Machine made things worse. One day a mob arrived at the Temple, burned a few buildings, destroyed the Machine and sent James Prince packing. But Isaiah got Dinah and it looked as if the Temple would carry...