Word: weaseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...