Word: weaseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eddie Marsh worshipped his pious, bookish, tone-deaf mother (she "couldn't tell God Save the Weasel from Pop Goes the Queen"). She weaned Author Marsh on Hamlet's soliloquy, and he started her reading such moderns as Zola. She taught him to sew, too, and later, Sir Warrington Smyth, a schoolfellow, and "a powerful influence for good, fired me to knit mittens...
...Germany. This would place Poland in the bad strategic position of having to take the initiative and becoming the technical aggressor. If Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain should get fainthearted about the Polish Guarantee, as the Nazis confidently expect, he would have a hole, albeit small, through which he could weasel. The first timid step in this direction was taken last week when a German naval delegation, at the invitation of the Danzig Government, visited the Free City...
...March, "Lorraine"Ganne *Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Tijuen, Brazilian Dance, Milband *Les Preludes," Bymphonie Poem Liszt *Ballet Suite from "Aida" Verdi Sacred Dance of the Priestesses--Danco of the Little Black Slaves--Ballabile *"Pop Goes the Weasel" Cailliet *"Rhapsody in Blue" Greshwin Soloist: LEO LITWIN *"Lagunen," Waltzes Strauss Pavane Gould *Aragonaise from "The Cid" Massenet *Selections checked (*) are available on record at Briggs & Briggs Music C311store, Harvard Square...
...scientific aids for weather forecasting-such as latex balloons (see col. 1) which ascend to great heights, send down upper-air data by means of automatic radio-made a promise: in the future, the Bureau's weathermen would doctor their daily forecasts less often with the weasel word "probably...
...been Mr. Fathead's ma, I would have batted his ears morning and night for seven years to teach him manners. He ain't got the sense the good Lord puts into a weasel. Why, the first day I saw him, he was rude enough to take off his shirt right before me, while I was standing and talking to him. Just so! And another time he offered me a drink. Imagine! Now if it had been Pa or some grown-up gentleman, it would 'a' been all right; but a child...