Word: weasels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Prime Minister MacDonald tried to weasel out of aiding Cunard. "The trouble is not to get the Cunarder built," he declared, "but to get the com-pany to believe that when she is built she can be run with some chance of paying her way. There would be no difficulty in getting money for the building if there were any prospect of getting the interest repaid and the loans refunded...
...Rumania, musical Prince Charles of Belgium. Six years ago as Le Boeuf began to take on a smug, profitable air, Wiener & Doucet left it, started giving serious concerts which (radically, then) featured jazz. Last week in Manhattan they began their first U. S. tour. Quick and sharp as a weasel, Wiener sat over his keyboard last week, played brittle melodies while opposite him Doucet, slow and enormously fat, kept up easy-running accompaniments. The Vivaldi-Bach Concerto and a Mozart Sonata made the bulk of their program, but the U. S. has been used to hearing its own Maier & Pattison...
...learns it is true. Before long a horrid scene occurs. Disgusted at her mother's apparently inveterate immorality, the daughter takes up with a rounder who parades his bad intentions. Her fiance breaks into a room where they are reveling, pushes the rounder (Monroe Owsley) in his smirking weasel face, carries Joan Crawford downstairs...
...election to the Senate. For Lincoln they were a major opportunity to attract public notice and favor. Contrasted with Lincoln, Douglas is commonly depicted as the arch fiend of slavery. As a matter of fact he was not. He tried to take a middle course on the issue, to weasel on it just as politicians today weasel on Prohibition. He favored settlement of the question in each new State by "popular sovereignty." His quarrel with Buchanan arose because he thought the President had gone over bag & baggage to the extreme pro-slavery camp in trying to make Kansas a slave...
What gave Secretary Hyde his chance to settle the Drought fight he had started was last fortnight's compromise on $20,000,000 for "agricultural rehabilitation" (TIME, Feb. 16). Did or did not those weasel words mean that money could be spent for food for hungry farmers? Nobody in Congress knew for sure. After much interpretative haggling, the Senate last week put the question squarely up to Secretary Hyde in a resolution that asked "whether the amendment relating to Drought Relief includes in its terms food, clothing and medicines...