Search Details

Word: weaseling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...every State except Kansas and North Carolina. And last week John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who with his father has given $350,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, wrote Nicholas Murray Butler that the "evils" resulting from Prohibition led him now to favor repeal. Practical politicians realized that the old weasel-words about "law enforcement" would serve no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Bread, Not Beer | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...Weasel Mellon. If to most Englishmen Ambassador Mellon's words sounded vague and cheerless, a famed Welshman did not hesitate to-attack him openly. In a new book published last week, Mr. David Lloyd George called him a weasel, thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Make Thy Loins Strong | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...Conservative] admits that since then he has learnt a great deal. At that time he merited his constant boast that he was only a 'simple countryman.' A business transaction at that date between Mr. Mellon and Mr. Baldwin was in the nature of a negotiation between a weasel and its quarry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Make Thy Loins Strong | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

Last week chunky, affable Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania did a Dry-to-Wet flipflop. In 1930 he was elected on the customary platform weasel of "strict enforcement." Fearful lest Boss William Scott Vare of Philadelphia reject him as a candidate for renomination in the April primaries. Senator Davis has now "regretfully reached the conclusion that the results hoped for under Prohibition have not materialized." Henceforth the Repeal-&-Return plank of the late Dwight Whitney Morrow will be his political guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Plank, Poll, Party | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...sense of humor (nearly impossible for a co-ed) to clown. The Clara Bow month on our buxom cornfed lassies is just another Cumberland gap in disguise, and the termination of Grate Garbo lip in a dimple is the ending of an opera in "Pop Goes the Weasel." But most mouths are nothing more than Halloween scares--impossibilities after the age of 12 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/27/1932 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Next