Word: stew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high good humor all week, Franklin Roosevelt could chuckle as he read these words and repaired to Hyde Park, leaving Congress to stew in Washington. Nature and Franklin Roosevelt make a combination hard to beat...
...remark concerned the bitter, prolonged strife of industry and labor. He and Mediator Charles P. Taft, who last week sailed for Europe leaving the steel strike to stew in its own juice, had agreed that the public feeling toward both parties to the dispute could be summed up in one Shakespearean phrase, "A plague o' both your houses." Was this double-damnation his own feeling? The President declined to affirm or deny. It was what he thought the public thought. Since good politicians model their opinions after the public's, it was fair to deduce that Franklin Roosevelt...
...FEEL myself rise to a tremendous pitch of emotion as I sense that in a moment, a shallow second, the mood of exaltation and solitude will burst, and I shall think of Economics, thinner (much better than the stew), work, Mr. Rotter, and the awful wretchedness...
...what a stench! Black maggots, tasteless, fleshy matter. Food. Green food. Those hills he had read of, those places where the soil was rich, and good, clean, food grew. Stew! Brew, grew, stew, whew...
...closing let me say that no well informed bum could fail to read TIME. It ranks along with a good Mulligan stew and you know how good that is-or do you? ROBERT BRUCE SHORT...