Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Member of Parliament. His name is Herwald Ramsbotham (pronounced Ramsbottom). He studied at Oxford, fought gallantly in the War. His frosty monocle magnifies a warm twinkle. He wears striped shirts, and talks as if he had some hot Yorkshire pudding in his mouth. His strength lies in his solid conservatism, his besetting weakness is for classical quotations...
Record readers settled down to several hours' solid entertainment, for no man in Congress has such a gift for making two long words do the work of one short one. The range of his sesquipedalian verbal achievements spread from masterly Johnsonian periods on the occasion of "Remarks of Senator Ashurst on the Steamship President Grant on Saturday, October 26, 1935. Presenting to Vice President Garner a Pair of Sox to be Worn When He Has an Audience with the Emperor of Japan," to sombre views on mankind's future, viz.: "It is still an open question...
...obviously aimed for this autumn's probable General Election, attacks pro-Nazis and the Munich settlement, adopts a stern tone only when discussing outright Fascists and Conservatives and the Tory members of the Anglo-German Fellowship. British readers, who knew the British ruling class was rich, small and solid but scarcely expected to find that most of the world of Parliament is kin, doubted that much would come of the revelations in Tory...
...Bing Crosby (Kraft Music Hall). Last week Standard Brands and Vallée announced an amicable parting of the ways next September 28, within crooning distance of their tenth anniversary. Of his plans, Rudy Vallée characteristically observed: " 'My Time Has Been Your Time' for ten solid years, and it will be yours again after 'My Time Has Been My Time' for a little while...
...income tax evasion against him, on grounds that there had been "a change of atmosphere" in Louisiana. When such cynical atmosphere sniffers as Columnist Westbrook Pegler noted Weiss tooting a tin trumpet in Philadelphia in June 1936, vowing undying loyalty to Franklin Roosevelt and, incidentally, plumping down 20 solid delegates' votes, they termed this incident "The Second Louisiana Purchase." (In January 1939, Weiss quietly paid the Internal Revenue Bureau $38,746.10 in back taxes and penalties for the years...