Word: tush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hjalmar Schacht, German master of ledgerdemain, ousted from the Reichsbank presidency in January to make way for Nazi inflationists, embarked on a world-circling vacation trip. Last week he arrived in Bombay, India, tush-tushed reports that he had come to barter for Indian cotton. Surprisingly unsanguine, he said of Britain's stop-Hitler alliances: "We will do our best when the time comes. . . . We will give them a good fight...
...they cannot hope to see it out." Suggested methods of winding it up: sabotage, political assassinations. But when one of his characters says: "The queer thing is that, when this lunatic comes to you and starts this idea in your head, you don't say Pish or Tush and just turn it down; you begin to have a vague sense that somehow you have felt something-you hardly know what," he expresses what the sympathetic reader feels about such a Wellsian book as Star-Begotten. And occasionally, as a good journalist may, Wells's burbling, suggestive, enthusiastic talk...
...Cabinet. Mild, bespectacled Colonel Gueorguieff and his Zveno friends did not like politicians. Loyal to popular, brave King Boris, they told him some time ago that they wanted to take the Government away from Premier Nicholas Mushanoff. Trying to be neutral toward the politics of his country, Boris tush-tushed them...
...reason for these omissions appeared when, as a native Kansan, Vice President Curtis declared himself Dry. Said he: "I am a strong believer in the rule of the majority but I am opposed to the return of the saloon and the repeal of the 18th Amendment." Wet Republican editors tush-tushed the vice-presidential nominee for failing to stand by President Hoover's State option formula. Gleefully exclaimed Democratic Chairman Farley: "It looks as if the Republican ticket had a half-dry head and a dried-out tail...
...Governor had to decide whether or not to remove the Tammany Mayor from office for malfeasance and nonfeasance. He fumed & fumed because Counsel Seabury had released his charges to the Press. He inspired, through an anonymous spokesman, insinuations against the investigator's motives which set Manhattan editors tush-tushing. Though he declared he "resented" any speculation as to the part national politics would play in his decision in the Walker case, the fact that it would play a big part was plain...