Word: mongering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...term "snap" has been used rather too loosely by undergraduate authorities to designate any course which requires less energy output than the average. In a more precise terminology, there is a very small and exclusive category of "snaps," which can fulfill the wildest dreams of the party-monger and the crew man. These courses can usually be detected by a survey of enrollment statistics. Thus, when six hundred percent more students suddenly find their souls stirred by the esoteric beauties of Chinese literature, there is cause for more than conjecture. And likewise there is when, within a few years...
...SCANDAL MONGER ? Emile Gauvreau?Macaulay...
...detail of the Iowa State Fair-the art contest for a sweepstakes prize. Last week as the 1932 Fair began, this year's sweepstakes was won again, as it has been every year since 1929, by Painter Grant Wood of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, an even more passionate detail-monger than Author Stong. Other prizes went to amateur artists from Grinnell, Schaller, Independence, Des Moines, Ames, Iowa City and What Cheer. Grant Wood, 40, was born at Anamosa, Iowa. His Iowa landscapes look like photographs of landscapes modelled out of hard candy. The man-made detail-houses, pumps, fence-palings...
...laws have been enacted which make "wilful and malicious" slander a crime. Libel laws cover only written defamation, and few rumors about banks are ever printed. The original bill was drafted in 1907 by .gaunt, white-haired Thomas Bugard Paton, now gen- eral counsel for American Bankers Association. Many mongers have been indicted, but in few cases have banks ever carried the case to a finish because of community sentiment. Monger O'Connell's conviction would be the first in New York State since the passage of the law in 1912. Indicted recently for the same offense were...
...Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, director of the bank and its counsel, called all the ugly rumors lies, spoke of their "utter baselessness, sheer malignancy." He said Chatham Phenix would prosecute Mr. O'Connell to ''the very limit of the law," was busy seeking other rumormongers. If convicted, Monger O'Connell may face a $1,000 fine or one year in jail...