Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hoople connoisseurs particularly admired Cartoonist Ahern's extravagant poolroom slang, in which slow race horses are called "turf turtles" or "land crabs," a crap game is described as a "few knuckles of dice...
Members of the Class of 1939 introduced a novel element into the customary procedure. Things were pretty slow getting started, so all the boys began throwing cheese and doughnuts around the room...
Keynoting at Maine's Republican State Convention last month, the big, rugged, slow-spoken Oregon Senator declared:' "The most rapid improvement [in business] came after the Supreme Court invalidated the National Recovery Act and removed the governmental clutch from the throat of American business. ... In its effort to meet the agricultural problem, the New Deal has failed. . . . Needless, spendthrift addition to this crushing [national] debt is but little short of criminal." Last week it was widely noted that Senator Steiwer had voted for NRA. for AAA and the AAAmendments, had led the Senate fight against President Roosevelt...
...their keynoter in Philadelphia next June, Democratic chieftains last week also chose a genial, slow-spoken Senator, one every bit as big and rugged and impressive-looking as Republican Steiwer. By coming out early for Franklin Roosevelt, Kentucky's Alben William Barkley got the post of keynoter at the Democratic convention in 1932. By unwavering loyalty to the New Deal, Senator Barkley won the same reward this year. He cannot, however, rehash the same speech. Denouncing and deploring four years ago, he will this year have to commend and indorse...
Pending tabulation of the results of his test, Dr. Clark described some of the effects which 54½ sleepless hours had on his students: "The faculty which suffers most ... is vision. The boys just couldn't see clearly, their notions of perspective were bad, their eye movements slow and their judgment of color erratic. Muscular coordination was low, tests of writing, aiming a gun, and hitting a nail on the head showing a great loss of accuracy. But there were periods when the boys seemed to make brief comebacks to alertness, something like 'second wind...