Word: squirm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason why the battallion of janitors who foregather in the basement of Harvard Hall should not shoulder their rusty keys and throw wide all the gates. The portals that are now life unlocked usually have one gate sadly ajar, making it necessary to wedge one's way in or squirm through surreptiously. The conditions in the Houses are even worse during the regular college year. There are many fine portals that open only once a year to admit the tractor that hauls the wooden board walks. Enough of cloistering. R. A. Briggs...
...Watched Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, a statesman far too aloof to squirm, submit in frigid silence to tongue lashings by Laborite and Conservative back benchers who compared him unfavorably to President Roosevelt...
Senator Couzens, serving one day as temporary chairman, made Mr. Mitchell squirm when he asked him whether he considered himself a better salesman than a financier. "I understand you have quite a reputation as a salesman and a financier both." Mr. Mitchell did not think the question fair, but replied: "I have rarely seen an executive who has to do with the public and the management of a great corporation who might not be called a good salesman." Senator Couzens: "I would judge you a better salesman . . . and that is no disparagement of your financial ability." Snapped Mr. Mitchell: "Thank...
...Clarksburg, W. Va., the management of the local baseball club had holes cut in the fence of the park just large enough to permit urchins to squirm through, but not large enough for gamins...
...lace curtains. Mail men stoop beneath vast leather bags full of hopeful verse in bad metre and worn out welcomes. Shop girls run over their heels and smile in tried silence. Fat dowagers in alligator pumps talk over counters with irascible volubility. Little girls stand on tip toe and squirm while a doll says "mamma" and closes her eyes. On Tremont Street gamins paste their noses against the plate glass and whistle. Choirs seek a new Bass for the Halleujiah Chorus and the Junior League trills "Stille Nacht" amid giggles at pronunciation. Beacon Hill buys tins of choclate against...