Word: tom-tom
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...Washington many people have their exits and their entrances and most in their time play many parts. Senator Carter Glass "in a class by himself," is cast as hero. Professor Moley plays clown. General Hugh Johnson undertakes a comic Falstaffian role, "chief name caller" of the Administration, roaring about "tom-tom beaters," "witch dancers," "hobgoblin seers," "chiselers," "social Neanderthalers," threatening to "crack down" while NRA goes to pieces under him. Professor Tugwell is the chief antagonist, marshal of the forces seeking a socialistic state. He is a respected enemy until, during the farce of the Wirt investigation...
...Kansas City, General Johnson said he had telephoned President Roosevelt that not 1% of the people had any idea of opposing his program. In Convention Hall he declared: "There was so much tom-tom writing in the papers out here that I thought it well to make a swing around the circle. It was altogether unnecessary." He told the story of the New York chef who hastened out to the Midwest because "some big butter-&-egg man of those days" informed him there were "millions of bullfrogs" on his ranch. "He knew that because he heard them filling...
Visiting in Washington was Alabama's portly ex-Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, whose fear and hate of Popery caused him to bolt the Democratic candidacy of Al Smith, plump for Hoover in 1928. To inquiries about his law business in Lafayette. Ala, he replied: "Business is good. I'm at peace with the world." "How about you and the Pope?" he was asked. Senator Heflin grinned broadly, "I'm at peace with the Pope...
Through the infernal blackness of the midnight jungle on an island "as yet not, self-determined by marines" fled Jones, Imperator. He was pursued by the tom-tom's beat, by the tax-leeched natives whom he had ruled, by voodoo devils, by the weakness of the mortal flesh. Three shots rang out. His Majesty fell, staggered forward, collapsed at the feet of Smithers, white, rum-soaked, trader. "Where's year 'igh an' mighty airs now, yer bloomin' Majesty? Gawd blimey, but yer died in the 'eighth o' style...
...Bahama group are "Motorboat,"' a hulking mahogany-colored buck who in one dance wore rainbow-hued feather knickers, and "Pearl of Nassau," a gaudy little darkie who lustily copies the seductive hip-wiggling of Josephine Baker. Attired in scanty draperies and usually accompanied by gourds or tom-tom alone, the Bahama troupe shifted abruptly from sober interpretations of spirituals to the frankly orgiastic frenzy of native Bahaman dances. Against the high yellow paling which divided them from the orchestra their shadows were enormous and fantastic. But in spite of claims that their dances were independent of Harlem...