Word: troughing
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...Dykes (237 boarlike pounds of smalltime politician) to sit at it instead. Said Jimmy, when Arnall arrived: "Ellis, you remind me of a hawg. Did you ever slop a hawg? The more you give him the more he wants and he never knows when to get out of the trough...
...Trough. In Washington, D.C., Author Jeff Baker finished a radio skit in which his main character was arrested for parking in front of a horse-watering trough, a few weeks later was pinched the same...
...careful years in Washington, silver-shocked Senator Shipstead has learned to avoid controversial domestic subjects, has never signed his name to any important piece of legislation. But he has remembered to look out for his constituents. He blatantly promised "to lead the farmers up to the Treasury-trough for a hearty feed." Originally a Republican, he paid no attention to party lines. Minnesota had first sent him to the Senate as a Farmer-Laborite, returned him twice on that ticket, finally as a Republican again...
...thought, but there it is. . . . I tell you Runyon has subtlety but it is the considered opinion of this reviewer that it is a great pity the guy did not remain a rebel out-and-out, even at the cost of a good position at the feed trough...
Died. Charles Butterworth, 46, stage & screen comedian whose hesitant, apologetic manner helped lift Hollywood comedy out of its custard-pie trough; in an automobile accident near Los Angeles, when his British roadster jumped a curb, struck a lamp post, left 180 feet of skid marks. Originally a newspaperman (said his kindest city editor: "Charlie is worth every bit of his $26 a week"), he got his theatrical start with a Rotary Club lecture in J. P. McEvoy's Americana, later became famed for his deadpan burlesque of the eager, mousy little guy he really...