Word: smooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since stood shuttered and vacant, grass tall in its yard? supposedly a symbol of the Senator's personal sacrifice in public service. His high poke collar with its white linen tie has given way to a lower softer neckdress, but there has been no relaxation in the grim stiff Smoot personality. From his indefatigability has sprung the verb to smoot...
Only three things break into the Senator's smooting: 1) vaudeville; 2) golf; 3) the Washington Zoo. For diversion this stern man went every Friday night to Keith's Theatre to sit in the second row just behind the orchestra leader and gaze over the footlights in unsmiling delight. Great was his sorrow when the theatre closed. His golf came at the age of 63. Now from 6 to 7 a. m. he plays a round on the capital's public links, shooting 110 in straight cautious jabs. At the Washington Zoo Senator Smoot liked to poke around among...
...Smoot feet, large and heavy, once almost created a diplomatic Incident when the French Debt Funding Commission returned to Paris to complain that Senator Smoot, a U. S. Commissioner, had comfortably rested his well-filled shoes upon their conference table. The catch word of that conference was France's "capacity to pay." At its conclusion a French Commissioner called upon Senator Smoot to bid him farewell, to ask if it were really true that Mormons practiced polygamy and if so, how they did it. The Senator replied: "That all depends upon?'the capacity...
...there is a singing in the Smoot heart when a new tariff bill approaches. Here he finds his earthly happiness in absorbed Service to U. S. business...
...voices more potently the demands for super-protection for U. S. industries and manufactures than Joseph R. Grundy, Bristol, Pa., worsted maker, cash collector extraordinary for the G. O. P. (TIME, Feb. 18). In Miami re- cently Senator Smoot was asked about tariff revision. Replied he: "I don't know. I haven't seen...