Word: tub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cherington, a Republican, charged that the "A.D.A. in this state has degenerated into a professional group of Democratic tub-thumpers...
Plots to William Shakespeare were as pots to a busy wizard-any old tub, begged, borrowed or stolen, would do to mix the magic in. In The Tempest, for instance, the plot is the tired old story about a nobleman, bilked of his estates, who takes refuge on a distant island, and mild revenge on his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. Yet in this common vessel, Shakespeare stirred a wizard's brew of steaming language and the rich juice of 30 years' experience; the mixture mulled, at the last stir of the action, into a fine philosophical...
Yesterday's workout, according to a release prepared before practice by H.A.A. tub-thumper W. Henry Johnston, "emphasized a review and brush up on each position with attention given to fundamentals, mainly blocking and tackling...
When the 1948 Bollingen Prize for Poetry went to Ezra Pound, longtime tub-thumper for MusSolini and fascism, there was a literary and political furor from Bangor to San Diego, and a joint congressional committee abolished all further Library of Congress awards. Last week, the $1,000 award's new trustees at Yale University announced the winner for 1949: Wallace Stevens, 70, vice president of the Hartford (Conn.) Accident & Indemnity...
...Yorkers had been told to give up tub baths for showers, forbidden to wash their cars, urged to go unshaven one day a week; they had been coaxed, wheedled and threatened. All the irritating wartime apparatus of publicity stunts and insistent radio commercials and all the meddling busybodies who liked to demand public sacrifices had been put to work to save the city's dwindling water supply. And still New York City's reservoirs contained only enough water to keep the metropolis going for 90 days. Last week, feeling just a little bit ridiculous but also a little...