Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...message to the Chamber of Commerce (see p. 65) the President himself made the point that ''it is time to stop calling 'wolf.' " He continued to turn a polite but unyielding ear to the radical inflation proposals of the silver bloc. More specific, Representative Pettengill told the House that the essentials of the stockmarket control bill dated back 25 years to Charles E. Hughes's proposals when he was Governor of New York. And the President's friend, Raymond Moley, took occasion in an address to the Advertising Club of New York to belittle...
...guardsmen were placed on patrol duty between the executive mansion and the State Capitol at Frankfort. Said Governor Laffoon : "If I get a few minutes notice before anyone starts shooting. I'll outrun any of them in spite of my game leg."* In Manhattan Bibliophile Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach paid $10,100 for the small, precise squiggle of Georgia's Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence, affixed in witness of a farmer's will. In 1927 Bibliophile Rosenbach bid higher than any man had ever before bid on a single piece of Americana, paid...
...Neighbor Kisselman, after a quarrel with Neighbor Cavalieri, threw up a 6-ft. $300 barbed-wire spite fence. In reply Neighbor Cavalieri hoisted a pink wooden pig on a pole to grimace down at Neighbor Kisselman. Neighbor Kisselman ranged along his spite fence two pigs, a toad, a wolf, two snakes, a wild bull, a skunk, a baboon; portraits of Neighbor Cavalieri...
...yard dash--Won by Wolf (A); second, Fullen (A); third, Richard A. Brayton '37. Time--22 4-5 seconds...
...yard dash--Won by Wolf (A); second, Fullen (A); third, Richard A. Brayton '37. Time--10 2-5 seconds...