Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even this did not seem to the Speaker to merit reproof. Mr. Buchanan continued: "MacDonald is a coward. He may get out of his position and sneak into power and privilege; he may die honored in the end, possibly; but when he passes out he will be cursed deservedly by thousands, nay millions, of decent, kindly souls who on this winter's night are suffering in my native land as nobody can tell...
...Time radio technique of re-enacting such scenes as were needed. First experimental dummy reel was completed last August, showing such subjects as the birth of the Dionne quintuplets, the death of Hindenburg, U. S. midshipmen cheering the Pope. Three more dummies were made, tested on cinema audiences by "sneak" previews. By October the editors had made two important discoveries...
...reviewing Peck's Bad Boy, current cinema, TIME correctly describes Cousin Horace (Jackie Searl) as "a juvenile sneak & pedant" (TIME, Oct. 15). Cousin Horace, arriving at the Peck household, is carrying a magazine. At several moments a familiar cover is plainly visible. TIME! A symbol of pedantry, no doubt...
...Borah of Idaho in Washington State on sneak-trip, says he has confidential assurances from White House there will be no central bank, and no inflationary moves with silver. Bill is very sore, blasting New Deal right and left. . . . Borah said confidentially that his private information was the Roosevelt speech to bankers was window-dressing; he claims 'Roosevelt has sold out to the money power.' Bankers here generally laugh at the Roosevelt speech, because they are stuffed with money and Government paper and are trying every way to make loans...
...writes an essay to the effect that Mr. Peck (Thomas Meighan) is an ideal father, he learns that Mr. Peck is not his father. When his Aunt Lily (Dorothy Peterson) and his Cousin Horace (Jackie Searl) arrive in the Peck household, Horace turns out to be a juvenile sneak & pedant. Bill Peck's gang refuses to accept him. Aunt Lily blames Bill for their antipathy. Manfully, Bill decides to run away from home, but when he does so his eccentric old friend Duffy (O. P. Heggie) brings him back...