Word: snipes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from him. But in four months he has proved himself a shrewd and aggressive naval chief who runs the department instead of letting the admirals run it. A good mixer, he has known most of them by their first names for years. His pince-nez slide down his long snipe nose. He wears coats two sizes too big. His felt hat is generally cocked at a raffish angle. For weekends he goes off on a destroyer to sniff salt air or visits the Hoover camp on the Rapidan, now in charge of marines. In his office he scorns details. When...
Conference. Obviously M. Daladier's most important job will be steering his country through the World Economic-Conference at London. He is well aware that such meetings can be like snipe-hunting at night with bag and candle. It takes at least three to hunt snipe-one to hold the bag and two to enjoy the joke. Edouard Daladier is firmly determined that if the London Conference is a snipe hunt, it will not be France that is left holding the bag. She is already holding the gold standard bag, with pound, dollar, mark and lira all cut loose...
...color in their ice blocks, the fish stare back with more than living fishiness. Seattle pays almost nothing to maintain the exhibit, charges no admission. The collection ranges from a shrimp to an 831-lb. sea lion. Some are common denizens of the Puget Sound region. Rarest are the snipe eel, lantern fish, lancet fish, sprakler, highbrow, and Willoughby's ragfish...
...hours the President and the House committee sat around the Cabinet table discussing ways & means of saving money. Mr. Hoover's main point was that Congress should amend certain laws to reduce mandatory expenses rather than snipe at the appropriation bills. The House committee wanted to merge the Army & Navy into one department of defense but the President would not even listen to such a proposal. A general 11 % cut in Federal salaries was favored by the Congressmen. Mr. Hoover countered with a proposition to cut the salaries of the President ($75,000 per year), Cabinet members ($15,000), Senators...
...Speaker called the janitor. The janitor called his assistant. His assistant called Electrician Fred Karns. Finally, over the protest of several legislators who fancied themselves as marksmen, it was decided that the electrician was the nimblest present, best suited for crawling to points of vantage from which to snipe the pigeons. Sportsman Karns provided himself with an air rifle recently taken from a small boy who had been caught hunting in the capitol grounds, shot six pigeons...