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Word: soupspoon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey. Up & down the State hurried Alexander ("Little Napoleon") Simpson, Democratic nominee for the Senate, caustically charging his Republican opponent, Dwight Whitney Morrow, with responsibility for hard times and unemployment. He compared Mr. Morrow to the Dalai Lama of Tibet, declared the Morrow butler perfumes the Morrow soupspoon. Nominee Morrow meets these attacks with such sweet reasonableness as: "It's not at all unnatural for the political party out of power to blame bad times on the political party in power. Conversely it is the habit of the party in power during a period of prosperity to take credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Shadow of the Polls | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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