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...Deputies and Bishops had been deliberating over "national and international" problems as important and significant to the outside world as the change-of-name to Episcopal theologians. Yet whereas the change-of-name excited the Deputies and drove Dr. Beale to tears, the national and international problems elicited only weasel words from the committee, whose conservative majority included onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, Major General Charles Pelot Summerall and Washington's Bishop James Edward Freeman...
Enjoying evil for its own sake, the Captain reduces Brother Matthew to a state of misery by destroying his faith in God and man. He ferrets out Nephew Romney's deep tangled secrets, laying him bare and vulnerable, enjoys exposing the boy to a crass prostitute. Weasel-like, soft-footed, he discovers that his spinster sister's love letters are written by and to herself. He relishes the joke, pretends to sympathize, but uses the knowledge to get money out of her. Even the servants are not exempt from his influence...
Last week Abyssinia's Foreign Minister Gueta Herouy suddenly announced that "because of the machinations of a certain power" the match had suddenly been called off. These were weasel words to Tokyo's Nichi Nichi which frankly announced that the machinations were those of Bcnito Mussolini...
...secretary, met it with a double-barreled reply. One barrel went off with a smart bang: Colonel Lindbergh, famed for his Press-shyness, had deliberately sought "publicity" by releasing his telegram to the newspapers before giving the President the courtesy of receiving it. The second barrel emitted a weak weasel: the Colonel's telegram was "in error" in its statement that the President had canceled the contracts. True, the President had not canceled the contracts but Washington and the world well knew that Postmaster General Farley would never have dared to sign the cancellation without the approval...
...skirted scarlet coat and beaver hat, the perennial herald of the National Horse Show, Ringmaster Dutch White, blew "Pop Goes the Weasel" with many a false squawk on his coaching horn and another Manhattan social season commenced last week. It was more than a New York occasion. Dutch White's tootling this year opened a Golden Jubilee. Horses from Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Kansas and Czechoslovakia, riders from five nations (attracted also by last month's Chicago Fair horse show-TIME, Nov. 6) were at Madison Square Garden to participate...