Word: squirm
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...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...
...arch-Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Congressman Nicholas Longworth of the First (Cincinnati) Ohio District. A political realist with an uncommon sense of election drifts, he made the above remarks in an interview to newshawks in Washington. His statement made other G. O. P. leaders wriggle and squirm with acute pain. But a few hours later Speaker Longworth atoned for his frankness, proved himself still the orthodox partisan when he broadcast a campaign speech in which he flayed Democrats and their tariff tactics as responsible for the Depression...