Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collective bargaining without the teeth of the Wagner Bill is one of those pleasant expressions U. S. politicians have used since the steam engine was invented, without ever giving thought to that A B C of government, that there can be no justice without law. and no law without a sanction. Either Republicans of the Knox and Hoover type do not know this, and in that event we deprecate their naivete, or they are insincere in holding out to Labor a palm that is greasy with the stuff from Wall Street that makes the G. O. P. machine go round...
...Vagabond likes to feel that in the old times there were giants upon the earth; even as there are great men living today. He is willing to accept his old friends for the good they did despite the bare truth about cherry trees, Shepland ponies, false teeth and plaster feet...
...aboard the Houston. This was Chief Olo-Benanya of the San Blas come to call on Chief Franklin Roosevelt of the U. S. Chief Olo-Benanya spoke no English and Chief Roosevelt spoke no Chibchan. Nevertheless, the Indian managed to barter some spears and a handful of sharks' teeth for several cartons of cigarets from Mr. Roosevelt. This deal accomplished, the Presidential party sailed up the squally Caribbean, planning to land at Charleston, S. C. and be back in Washington by the middle of this week...
...money. In England twelve million pounds is even more money. Mr. Harkness's ancestors ran around in leopard loin-cloths, hunting wild boars for supper, and made fire to cook by rubbing two sticks together. These ancestors never knew what twelve million dollars looked like, but they had better teeth than Mr. Harkness and could make love better than any Harvard man." The Vagabond lifted himself up as far as he was able...
...Years. Washes and dries face and hands; brushes teeth, buttons and unbuttons clothing; manipulates zippers; tells simple stories; repeats nursery rhymes...