Word: twitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hottest defense of all came from the nation's Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins in Washington. Newshawks who trooped into his office to twit him about boondoggles and ancient safety pins were quickly sobered. He was mad clean through. "Investigate?" barked he. "No! There's nothing the matter. Those are good projects, all of them. People who don't understand foreign languages sometimes laugh when they hear them. Dumb people make fun of things they can't understand...
Only in reference to stabilization did the President succumb to the old temptation to twit Big Business. At reports that he "did not know what it was all about" he cracked back as follows: "Let me make it clear to you that the Government of the U. S. has daily and even hourly contact with sources of information which cover not only every State and section of our own country, but also every other portion of the habitable globe. This information is more complete, informative and accurate than that possessed by any private agency...
...course easy to deride talk of social control, economic planning and the like as vague and visionary and to twit the planners with having no definite concrete program of what they propose to do. The answer, however, should be equally easy: of course such talk is vague, it must be vague since we have had as yet almost no experience of planning to go by. I am sure that no intelligent supporter of the Administration's policy would regard the codes which have been drawn up so far or the labor policy which has been outlined as more than...
...seemed a good time for blatantly Dry Congressman Thomas Lindsay Blanton of Texas to get up and twit the Wets on their poor showing. Actually it was a bad time. For at that moment another Texas Congressman, paralyzed Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, put his black-gauntleted hands to the wheels of his rolling chair, pushed himself up to the rostrum and squiggled his name in the 145th blank space. Derisive Wet whoops from both sides of the House squelched crestfallen Congressman Blanton...
...plan received such popular approval perhaps surprised no one more than himself. As it was, not even the Democrats were inclined to molest the international bankers in the enjoyment of their victory or to make trouble for the President on this obvious score. Declared Senator Harrison, usually a Hoover-twit- ter of the first order: "To those who say that the plan is in the interest of international bankers and the holders of German securities, I answer back and say, yes, it may help them. But why should we grudge that? Are they not a part of our American citizenship...