Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt, "Honest Vic" has been for much of his 40-year official life the best all-around Democratic vote-getter. A ball of fire on the stump, old-timer Donahey has not once opened his jaws oratorically in the Senate since he was sworn in. A great believer in laissez-faire, a fanatic devotee of fishing in times of legislative crisis, "Honest Vic" thinks everybody talks too much. If Senators were graded like schoolboys, he would rate: diligence, fair; deportment, awful; attendance, terrible; common sense...
...Blackout blues" was New York Timesman Raymond Daniell's phrase for Great Britain's state of mind last week. Members of the War Cabinet went on the stump to give the country a lift, but the first of their speeches to that end-by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill-gave it a laugh instead...