Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This gave unintellectual Prime Minister Baldwin the perfect opening for a perfect English retort. "We are being censured for not having any considered plan." said Stanley Baldwin easily. "I have never been a slave to a word. If there is a word that has been ridden to death today it is the word PLAN. I have seen nothing of planning in any foreign country that would lead me to think it is a universal panacea. I don't exactly know what plan is. For some kinds of plans there are books and pamphlets undertaking to cure unemployment...
...this most sensational trial of a humdrum Paris summer the principals were strangely at cross purposes. The prisoner, Miss Joan Warner, hoped to get by with her professionally nude "Slave Dance" and yearned to have it declared Art. The judges frankly considered the case trivial but expected something brilliant from the great French criminal lawyer, Maitre Henry Torres, who appeared for the defense. The prosecutor, scandalously sympathetic with Miss Warner, observed before the trial opened: "It would be a shame to send Joan to prison. She is young and besides she is very pretty. I am not going...
Suddenly among the Bagdad's sippers of tea, Dubonnet and citron presse appeared Miss Warner in a clinging, translucent gown, her hands manacled at the wrists, her mien intense. She had invented her "Slave Dance" after being distanced by the competition of Fan Dancer Sally Rand at Chicago's Century of Progress and now considered herself "The Poetess of Naked Rhythm." To the Boverat family it appeared that a blonde hussy had suddenly interrupted their tea. She startled them further by rapidly removing what seemed to be all her clothes, casting off her manacles with a bang...
...Grilled Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare on the subject of Abyssinia and the League during a one-hour question period in which it was intimated that Great Britain's alibi for abandoning Ethiopia to the Italians may be that Ethiopia is a barbarous, slave-ridden country unworthy of League membership. Declaring that Ethiopians had made slave raids on some of Britain's African colonies, Sir William Davison cried: "Does the Foreign Minister not consider Abyssinia as not having fulfilled the expressed condition [abolition of slavery] on which it was admitted to membership of the League...
Good shot: King Mofolaba. summoned to palaver with Sanders, arriving in a hammock with a slave carrying a chair for him to sit on when he gets...