Word: yet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lark could be happier than John Edgar Hoover, chief policeman of the land, who has found in Attorney General Frank Murphy the perfect, implacable, incorruptible yet deferent boss. Mr. Murphy takes Mr. Hoover with him on major punitive expeditions, such as the one to Kansas City to "get" Boss Thomas J. Pendergast. Mr. Murphy encourages Mr. Hoover to step out vigorously on lines of his own, as any smart policeman likes...
Seymour Weiss was chary of comment last week but hurriedly resigned all of his posts. Yet big as was this Humpty-Dumpty off the wall, it was only one incident in a surging flood of resignations, indictments, dismissals...
...families, Tenant Defence detachments promptly reinstated them. Boasts Father John Groser, Church of England leader of the Stepney strike: "Many landlords have watched the straws in the wind and capitulated to just demands. Those who refuse, we are forced to fight-and we haven't lost a case yet...
...town. Of the afternoon papers, Hearst's Call-Bulletin is a shrill screamer, the Scripps-Howard News a tired liberal. If Paul Smith can put over the city's only home-owned newspaper as a liberal, world-conscious sheet, he may make a go of it yet...
Nobody has decided yet whether Pinky Smith is a young liberal who happens to be smart or a young smartpants who finds it convenient to appear liberal. But nobody denies that he has gone far in his 30 years and promises to go much farther. Twelve years ago he bummed his way across the toll bridge between Vancouver, Wash, and Portland, told the bridge keeper: "I'll come back some day in my Cadillac and pay you that nickel." Last week he crossed the bridge again and lamented: "Here I am in my Cadillac and I find the bridge...