Word: waspish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connolly was frank to say that he did not think they would. Founded in 1939 with the money of dairy-fortune heir Peter Watson and the brains of waspish, cherubic Editor Connolly and Poet Stephen Spender, Horizon never reached more than 10,000 subscribers, though it was probably the best of the little magazines. Lately circulation and advertising had been slipping and costs rising. More important, the galaxy of literary lights who had once brightened its pages-T. S. Eliot, Arthur Koestler, Evelyn Waugh-have not shown there in the last year...
...Common Defense." Bradley thought that the U.S., once it had approved the treaty, should proceed to furnish arms to Britain and the Western European powers. Under the waspish questioning of Missouri's legalistic Senator Forrest Donnell, he admitted he could not compute the exact dollar cost of U.S. surplus arms to be supplied. But, he added: "They may well be worth a lot more to us in the hands of somebody else than in a storehouse over here...
Extraordinary Privilege. While the House sweated, the Senate, which would probably have to take final responsibility for extracting Rankin's stinger, was in almost as waspish a mood last week. After listening to A.F.L.'s 75-year-old President Bill Green, as he doggedly resisted anything but outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law, Ohio's Robert Taft finally exploded in exasperation: "Mr. Green, I don't want to make a speech. But it seems to me you are claiming the most extraordinary privilege any organization ever claimed in the United States...
...Taft. He snapped: "I disagree with the Attorney General. I don't know of any inherent right of the President to get injunctions in a national emergency. If you want to do that you ought to say so in so many words ... in clear law." Oregon's waspish Lawyer Wayne Morse, a Republican friend of labor, agreed with Taft...
Maryland's waspish Millard Tydings had one more question: What if Acheson could not accept any foreign policy course that the President should suggest? "I anticipate nothing so unhappy," Acheson said. "But should it arise, I would resign...