Word: fadeaway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having strangled the plans of John Hanes and Henry Morgenthau to revise corporation taxes this year (TIME, May 22), Franklin Roosevelt last week executed a fast fadeaway which saved the faces (and possibly the resignations) of Messrs. Hanes and Morgenthau. The face-saving compromise (influenced in part by press and Congressional pressure) was effected at a White House luncheon topped off by peach shortcake. The President and Tax Revisionist Pat Harrison (who had huffily told Mr. Roosevelt he was going to get a new tax bill whether he liked it or not) were brought together by Jimmy Byrnes, the slickest...
...gold, a ribbon fluttering saucily in her hair. In the centre of the ice, her sturdy little legs suddenly twinkled into the first steps of a mazurka. Then she swung into a Lutz jump, a Jackson-Haynes spin, glided backward the length of the rink in a fadeaway stop. To lay observers, this brief turn was not remarkable. For experts it was an exercise in sheer genius, the climax of the evening. Cheering wildly, they demanded two encores...
...scored one of the Harvard counters in person. Peterson, Penn flinger, permitted only seven Harvard blows, but they were opportune and gave complete satisfaction. A good indication of MacHale's effectiveness lies in the fact that, beginning in the third inning and continuing until the seventh, the Crimson fadeaway expert retired 14 consecutive batters...