Word: smidgen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was evidence last week of the palest smidgen of truth in what he said. It appeared that Frankie was unable to square his own dentist for a federal job. The gentleman, Dr. Charles L. Singer, had been nominated to run the U.S. Assay Office in New York City, a $7,432.20-a year job traditionally earmarked for Tammany. Dr. Singer was deserving: he had twice been an elector for Franklin Roosevelt. He also knew what gold was; he had filled teeth with it. He was elated: "Imagine! A presidential appointment announced at the White House. It is quite...
...crude, pine-slab cabin without bath or toilet, a little old lady sat silently peeling grapefruit one day last week. Presently a car pulled up the mountain road and honked. The old lady put down the paring knife, daintily touched a smidgen of rouge to her cheeks, clutched a wide-brimmed red straw sailor and climbed...
...Girls' enrollments, already at an alltime high, will rise only a smidgen more...
...Provinces journeyed to Ottawa at the invitation of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The Prime Minister wanted the Premiers to agree to a more rational economic setup for the Dominion, to reconstruct and centralize tax powers. Because his free-spending administration did not want to give up a smidgen of tax power, Premier Patullo attacked the plan. With the aid of Ontario's windy Mitch Hepburn and Alberta's William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, he sank it. What the Premier did not realize was that he had also sunk himself politically, by delayed action...