Word: veined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would believe that the President considers lending his sanction to a program which would revolutionize our system of government without proper discussion. It is hard to believe that the braintrusters intend to accomplish what their lightly bandied words insinuate. But apparently some of them have been talking in this vein. It seems a dubious proposition also that a full investigation of Dr. Wirt's charges will be conducted when he testifies. Undoubtedly, he will be asked to identify his informants and that will be that. Even if a non-partisan committee afterwards carries on their own investigation actual facts...
Stretched on an operating table in Baltimore's Sinai Hospital one morning last week lay a patient waiting to have his prostate gland removed. Instead of clapping an ether cone over his face, the anesthetist slipped a hypodermic needle into a vein in the crook of his elbow. In 20 seconds he lay unconscious, utterly limp. Six minutes after the operation was over he hoisted himself off the table, drank a glass of water, called for a "good big breakfast...
This remark came early in an address entitled "Can We Rehabilitate the Criminal," Bates, a solidly built, quick-witted, unaffected speaker, began his remarks in this vein: "I daresay there is considerable difference of opinion here on this subject. Furthermore, I am a bit hesitant about talking penology before such a gathering as this--between the Gloomy Gluecks on the one side and the Guiltless Gill on the other. (Loud and prolonged clapping) If I had said guilty, (aside to Gill) I suppose there wouldn't have been any applause...
...customary jocular vein, the President looked over his conference of newshawks, told them that they looked pale and tired and needed a rest and therefore he was going to order them to take five or six days' vacation in Florida sunshine. Thus he playfully conveyed the information that he himself had decided to take a rest in Florida the end of March...
...were not for his preoccupation with snobbish prose, Author Cabell might be capable of really savage satire. Even in his "habitual vein of romantic irony" he sometimes drops into a phrase that would have given even Jonathan Swift pause, as when he speaks of physical love as "a conjuncture of sewer pipes." But generally Cabell is content to continue astounding the bourgeois by his own superior urbanity. His intelligence and taste alike are now for most readers hopelessly buried under the tricks and oddities of a lush Cabellowing style...