Word: swarm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balancing the Budget. . . . It is not a partisan issue . . . not a controversy between the President and Congress. It is an issue of the people against delays and destructive legislation which impair the credit of the United States. It is also an issue between the people and the locust swarm of lobbyists who haunt the halls of Congress seeking selfish privileges . . . misleading members as to the real views of the people by showers of propaganda. . . . This is a serious hour which demands that the people rise with stern courage above partisanship to meet the needs of our national life...
President Hoover had not been to the Capitol since Washington's Birthday, but no journalist in Washington could deny the accuracy of his "locust swarm" phrase in describing the country's legislative halls (see above...
...President of the U. S. last week told the country that the halls of Congress were "haunted by a locust swarm of lobbyists" (see p. 15). This was news to no newspaper in the U. S. General descriptions of the locust-swarm were wired out of Washington by correspondents, but without naming names...
...were living in a house in which we had a part ownership we would doubtless be interested in those who shared this house with us. It would not please us at all if their part of the house was dirty, contaminated with cockroaches and other bugs that would swarm into our section...
...Geoffrey is an experience outworn, that they are both becoming drugs on each other's market, she leaves New York, runs back home to Midwestern Flemington. Here, headed by old Grandmother Westover, called by everybody Madam, the Westover clan pursues its troubles mixed with fun. Like a small swarm of bees they cluster about Madam, with her silver-headed cane and common sense, as around a queen more fertile than they of purpose and strength. When Tom gets the servant girl in trouble he turns to the grandmother for money to satisfy the girl's father; but grandmother...