Word: stig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James H. McIntosh, senior partner of the Manhattan firm of Alexander & Green and counsel for Bankers Trust. With learned dignity he made his argument and, in spite of apparent difficulty in pronouncing sibilant words, came to his peroration: "If you hold this resolution Constitutional, Congress will have put a stig-" at that point his false teeth popped clean out of his mouth. He grabbed his plate, just as it reached the green baize table, shoved it back in his mouth, continued "stigma on the good name of the country...