Word: squatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short, squat, bowlegged manifestation of dignity is waddling up Mass. Avenue towards the Square. He probably stops at the sign of Billings and Stover; for this is midafternoon, and the Professor must tighten his belt with the traditional milkshake. Emerging, he will puff out his lips, tap his black cane contentedly on the sidewalk, and roll on his way. Pausing a moment, he will reach into his pocket, pick out the cigar he had not smoked during some faculty meeting and give it to the blind news dealer. Again the puff, the cane, and the bow legs swing into action...
With a few-unimportant exceptions the big-league orchestras have kept their old lineups and star performers. Squat little Mischa Mischakoff still plays first violin for Chicago, lean young Alfred Wallenstein the 'cello for Manhattan, with Bruno Jaenicke behind him blowing himself red in the face over his French horn. Boston still has Richard Burgin playing first violin. Jean Bedetti first 'cello. In Philadelphia sleek Anton Torello still wields the big bull fiddle; Oscar Schwar, who was a drummer-boy in the Imperial German Army, still presides over the tympani...
...time the coal code reached the stage of public hearings in August, Miner Lewis dominated the scene. Before a packed auditorium a Deputy NRAdministrator sang out: "We will now hear from the president of the United Mine Workers of America." Lewis, John L. Everyone in the hall knew the squat, bullnecked, heavy-pawed figure that swaggered out to the rostrum. There was a glint of arrogance in his grey eyes. He jutted his heavy jaw. Dramatically he introduced himself in the idiom of the true labor leader: "The name is Lewis-John L." When the titters had died away Lewis...
...stubborn Republican who was resisting President Roosevelt's effort to turn him out of office was revealed last week in squat, bearded Federal Trade Commissioner William E. Humphrey. Appointed as a stand-patter by President Coolidge in 1925, Commissioner Humphrey was reappointed by President Hoover in 1931. President Roosevelt wrote him two months ago that his resignation would be acceptable in the make-over of the Government for the New Deal. Commissioner Humphrey replied that he had no idea of getting out, that no criticism had ever been made of his work, that the President had no right...
...critic of NRA happens to be blind Republican Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota. A mass of political contradictions, Mr. Schall once voted for Democrat Champ Clark for Speaker in the House, yet he almost wept on Pennsylvania's William Scott Vare when the Senate booted out that squat Republican, Now hardly a day passes without a barrage of dead cats for General Johnson from the Schall office on Capitol Hill. The Senator's outpourings have annoyed and embarrassed his Republican colleagues whose silent strategy is to give NRA all the rope it needs to hang itself. They...