Word: stingings
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...reputed to be a friend indeed. He was loyal and polished. What if he did sell paintings from the municipal museum walls, shower the country with rubber checks, run up staggering accounts at the swankiest stores? He did these things with a regal elegance that seemed to remove the sting common to such machinations. How such a figure could descend to the tawdry level of plain grubbing seems incomprehensible...
...cinema, which they had roundly flayed. Instead, Universal was clever enough to throw a few pebbles at its own glass house. Like the play, the picture chuckles at Hollywood for its illiteracy and vanity. Only the fact that Once in a Lifetime was made there withdraws some of the sting from its satire and makes it more farce than castigation...
...little more for beer. Which means that men will either be wearing elastic-sided pleats at waist-line level, or that there will be fewer men objectionable late Saturday when the only thing that can keep a man's grin together in that fact of his weariness is the sting of liquor. This is to the good...
...Poor. Senator Long was born poor 39 years ago on a farm in northern Louisiana. When he married Rose McConnell, winner of a baking contest he staged as salesman, he borrowed from her $10 to pay the preacher. For days he has subsisted on bread & water. He knows the sting of poverty and now, for all his loud silk pajamas, $100 suits and jeweled finery, he has politically never allowed himself to forget it. His entire public appeal is as what he once was?a poor hillbilly. For years Louisiana has been familiar with his ranting campaigns against what...
Carrying his presidential drive outside his own State for the first time since the Chicago Convention, Governor Roosevelt last week journeyed to Columbus, Ohio, addressed 30,000 jubilant Democrats in the Municipal Stadium. His was a dashing, slashing speech, full of sting for the G. O. P. "The major issue in this campaign is the economic situation." he began and thereupon proceeded to flay President Hoover for his public behavior during the Depression. The Republican Party was blamed for "encouraging a vast speculative boom." Its 1928 promises of prosperity were skillfully bracketed with the actualities. Empty White House prophecies...