Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the White House last week came a set of sharp teeth for the Blue Eagle (see cut). President Roosevelt, invoking the power vested in him by Section 10 (A) of the Recovery Act, issued an executive order providing a penalty of $500 fine or six months imprisonment or both for anyone "falsely representing himself to be discharging the obligations or complying with the President's Re-employment Agreement or of any code of fair competition...
...matto, poveretto," the poor fellow is gone mad, exclaimed the Abbot at the monastery at Samos, while Byron raged with fever, allowing no one in his cell, breaking up the last shred of furnishing, beating Bruno, his unfledged physician, over the head. Bruno tore his hair, gnashed his teeth, wept because he had no power to use his poor skill on his master; the monks trembled and prayed. News of action came. Byron recovered overnight, set forth with miraculous energy; "I believed myself on a fool's errand from the first," he wrote, but he endured everything, the lies...
...metropolis with the steady beam of a courage which has faced without flinching the unleashed terrors of double negatives, redundant participles, and hopelessly severed infinitives. Before the onslaught of mad sentences without verbs and facts without relevance his head remains bloody, but unbowed. With flags still flying in the teeth of adversity last week, he named a Manhattan street for the Polish hero, Kosciusko, and with something of a manly tear in his voice he denied any ingratitude ("that basest of all sins") on the part of the City to its foreign population, and recalled to his audience that...
...sanguine observers of international affairs, this will mark an occasion for the League to show its teeth, to bring into play all the machinery of economic boycott and strangulation upon which its real efficiency must depend. Observers, less sanguine perceive that the League of Nations, like a stock pool or a successful church, demands from its operators that they be in good faith, that they shall not bargain slyly around the corner. Perhaps Great Britain and France believe in the League, and are willing to commit themselves seriously to its processes; it is no very cynical asperity to remark that...
...there were not many teeth left in his mouth. His lips had been punched wide. There was an old scar, almost as bold as a knife wound, on his left cheekbone. And over his eyes the accumulation of scar tissue, where his brows had been opened and stitched and healed repeatedly, projected like eaves. His belly was still rather flat, but it flapped and fluttered like a loose drumhead and there was a band of slack-meat over the top of his trunks." The piece ended with what none of Pegler's readers could misconstrue as an apology...