Word: taunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Objectives. Extraordinary fact about the Garner Rebellion is that its leader does not for one minute expect to win its Economy objective; at least, not at this session of Congress. John Garner, after 36 years in Congress, well knows that the President's taunt in his last annual message was a safe one, when he ironically asked whether Congress would like to economize on WPA relief, PWA projects, pensions or payrolls. More bitterly John Garner, life-long preacher and practitioner of thrift, feels that Economy is impossible so long as "that man is in the White House...
What can you expect when a hockey team is managed by a baseball umpire? Such was the prevailing taunt among U. S. sport fans when the Chicago Black Hawks, managed by Baseball Umpire Bill Stewart, wound up the regular season four weeks ago with only 14 victories in 48 games. Ending in third place in their division of the National Hockey League. Bill Stewart's team just qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs, but few insiders gave, them an outside chance...
...nearly two years previous police had suspected him and he had turned over to others the reckless venture he had begun. In four years 171 issues were distributed (some a week late) and only the last was openly issued without fear of death. Victor Jourdain had made good his taunt: "We defy our persecutors ever to silence us. Truth will cry louder than their lies...
...strings. But the great master made the Brahms Second come out so clear and controlled. Schubert's Unfinished Symphony sing with such freshness that the audience could forget the flocks of frightened sparrows which swooped and twittered above their heads. There was no raggedness when, partly as a taunt to Nazi Germany, he led them through a scherzo by Jewish Felix Mendelssohn...
Bothered by the taunt that an honorary scholastic society ought to do something besides exist, Phi Beta Kappa last week published Vol. 1, No. 1 of an earnestly sprightly organ chronicling 0 B K activities. Facts revealed in the first quarterly issue of the Key Reporter...