Word: undo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might remind the Herald Tribune--Since they are so glib about reminding us--that the best way to undo the work of Washington, Madison and the other founding fathers is to deride as "another how!" the anxious protests of those who see their most cherished liberties about to be legislated away. The Tribune errs dangerously when it adopts even for a moment the mudslinging tactics formerly peculiar only to labor leaders. When we reflect let us remember that temporary lapses like the Tribune's may tend to become permanent and that this is no time for any loosening...
...Ireland is hooey, Ireland is A gallery of fake tapestries, But I cannot deny my past to which my self is wed, The woven figure cannot undo its thread...
...love's old sweet song. Among apple trees and amid green woods, far removed from the bleeding tarts and coal-quay whores of Ulysses' Dublin, the young lover sings the praises of his "dove," his "beautiful one"-half angel, half virgin; he finally persuades her to undo the snood ''that is the sign of maidenhood"; and ends up in the classic predicament of all lyric lovers: starkly sitting on his bottom, all alone. A genius at mimicry. Joyce succeeds in imparting a flavor of old-fashioned purity to his verses; but behind this not entirely insincere...
...whole membership of the American Newspaper Guild would not undo last week what its delegates had already done at the smoothly-steered June convention. In a referendum forced by the Columbus, Ohio unit which reconsidered every resolution passed at the convention, 5,083 of the Guild's paid up editorial members upheld affiliation with C. I. O. 3,392-to-1,691. Further, the membership endorsed (2,774-to-2,202) the resolution urging independent political action with other labor groups when this seems desirable, called (2,815-to-2,178) for increased WPA appropriations to keep needy newspapermen...
...afternoon they took the bill, in committee-of-the-whole, and attached their earmarking amendments to it. Two days later Leader Rayburn attempted to pull the Administration forces together and undo the damage. Representative Woodrum, bitter that $500,000,000 should be cut for pork but not for economy, assisted. But the earmarking bloc remained in the saddle. The Administration leaders had to resort to a filibuster to keep the earmarked bill from being rushed to passage. The temper of the House was made manifest when an amendment was adopted limiting any WPA salary to $10,000. No name needed...