Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover both suffered severely from the disease of Presidents before they left the White House. Origin of the ailment is Presidential isolation from ordinary human contacts. It is aggravated by the fact that in order to get aids to carry out their policies, Presidents naturally surround themselves with advisers who admire them and sympathize with all their aims. Symptoms of the disease in the sufferer are 1) a growing impatience and resentment of criticism, 2) a feeling more or less openly expressed that he is being persecuted by men with unworthy motives, 3) a determination...
...attempt to arrest John Dillinger in his St. Paul apartment and finally the siege of the Little Bohemia roadhouse which, as reenacted in G Men, has very different consequences from the death of an agent and the escape of Bandit Dillinger. In G Men, Brick Davis and his companions surround a Wisconsin roadhouse in which the remnants of the Leggett gang are carousing with their women and shoot all of them except Brad Collins (Barton MacLane) whom Davis exterminates privately a few days later, trying to escape to Canada...
First, anti-aircraft batteries would fire blank shots. If these were disregarded, French combat planes would take the air, surround the German peepers and try to shoo them back into Germany, "making every effort to avoid collision and in no case pursuing beyond the frontier...
...have busied themselves in recent weeks over the draft text of a virtual military alliance with Russia to keep Germany in check. Since assassination was the fate of French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, who first pressed the idea of this "sanitary alliance," the Swiss warning caused Geneva statesmen to surround themselves this week as never before with bodyguards...
...drew up at the door of No. 2 Holyoke Place, Secret Service men leaped to surround him, then looked foolish. In a nearby dormitory one of Harvard's bright young men had set off a firecracker in honor of the President's arrival. In marched Franklin Roosevelt to dine in Harvard's Fly Club...