Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the course of one experiment, a few of these miscreants wrung the necks of 12 chickens in a neighboring cage, tore down all electric light fixtures, and released a dozen or more iliblended creatures by rolling up the chicken wire on the cages. Two days later found the monkeys in the seclusion of Franklin Park...
...paid by the consumers?" Beach: "The operating companies are the source of income." Senator Gibson: "And the source from whence their income comes is the consumer? " Beach: "Well, that's true." If Associated Gas was unpopular before last week's investigation, afterward other utility men could have wrung its neck. Said Lobbyist Gadsden for the Committee of Public Utility Executives: "It is, to say the least, unfortunate that representatives of any company should so depart from the standards set by the utility industry in general. It is acts like this, committed by a small number of companies, which...
...Democrats to oppose Holt. Said he: "I get no pleasure in taking the position I am taking. Every impulse of my carnal nature calls for a vote for him. But every impulse of my intellectual nature demands a vote against his seating." Later Mrs. Holt said she could have "wrung Senator Connally's neck" for talking that way. Rush Holt's white suit got all wrinkled during the first day's orations. When he and his family returned next day, he had on his second best, a brown coat and grey trousers. In that garb he stood...
...subject of utility holding companies nearly everyone had had his say. Franklin Roosevelt had asked for what practically amounted to their abolition. Powermen and investors had wrung their hands in loud anguish. Senator Wheeler had favorably reported the bill. Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council had counseled moderation. Senator Norris had lectured the Senate with giant charts showing the tentacles of the power octopus. Young Legalites Corcoran and Cohen, who drafted the bill, had given their advice privily in the cloakrooms. The whole Senate had enjoyed ten days of debate. Wiseacres sensed that 67 proposed amendments would soon...
...saying, Franklin Roosevelt swung around to the desk above him where Vice President Garner and Speaker Byrns had sat in sphinxlike pomp and handed Speaker Byrns the vetoed Bonus Bill and the original of his speech. While applause rang through the House Speaker Byrns wrung the President's hand, congratulated...