Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pious U. S. farmer firmly believes that the great Drought of 1934 was the work of God, angry at Tugwellian efforts to thwart His bounty. Yet the same God has so far failed to register His displeasure with another program for the willful destruction of natural wealth which, for sheer grandeur in scope and execution, dwarfs anything ever attempted in the U. S. or elsewhere. In three years Brazil's Departamento Nacional do Café has fired, made into fuel briquets or dumped into the deep blue sea 31,500,000 bags of coffee...
With President Roosevelt's open approval, California Democrats also nominated Hiram Johnson for Senator?and, incidentally, gave him more primary votes than did the Republicans who also nominated him. Thus the Democratic ticket will be headed by an ex-Socialist and an ex-Republican, and sheer party loyalty is not likely to weigh heavily in November. Mr. Sinclair's chances of election depend largely on what Senator Johnson may say for him. and what the Democratic machine headed by Senator William G. McAdoo is likely to do for him. Last week Senator McAdoo was thinking things over in Paris...
...record, but the crowd who saw Franklin Roosevelt's face as he reached Washington might give testimony. He was bronzed and he was smiling?that was a foregone conclusion?but he did not look as he had looked on other occasions, ready to turn figurative handsprings out of sheer exuberance. He did not sparkle. For that there were reasons...
Without descending to particulars, "Mitch" Hepburn took over from below Canada's frontier a few Roosevelt catch phrases such as "We are for the forgotten man!", but the bulk of his campaigning was sheer Canadian hayseed vituperation. Across from his farmhouse "Mitch" Hepburn had established a 15-acre car park and on big nights as many as 20,000 farmer constituents arrived to roar "Good boy, Mitch!" as he berated not only provincial Conservatives but the Dominion Government of rich and pious Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett...
...sheer adversity entitles an actor to the title of trouper, Hugh O'Connell is a trouper of the Eagle Scout class. As a child he was sent West from New York with a trainload of other orphans. It was O'Connell's good fortune to be adopted by an affectionate couple in Kaukauna, Wis. His foster mother was as stage-struck as he, and when he had not earned his way into the Opera House by sticking up posters for a touring troupe, she usually could lay hands on a half-dollar to buy them both gallery...