Word: distant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...seven years Washington correspondents have noted and written much of Secretary Early's blunders. An imposing, hot-tempered, red-faced Virginian (distant kinsman of Confederate General Jubal A. Early), a onetime newspaperman himself, and President Roosevelt's press secretary since 1933, he has also been the White House spokesman. Once he delivered what sounded like a Presidential rebuke to Henry Wallace for urging the Third Term. Once he relayed the President's views on the Monroe Doctrine in terms so confusing that neither State Department papers, editorials or his own cryptic statements later could clear them...
...cymbals, a triangle and a xylophone (some of them played with their feet), had grown as skittish as a couple of prima donnas. But by the time they got it whipped into shape, the sonata sounded like a piano conservatory tinkling sweetly above the din of a well-oiled, distant boiler works. Town Hall's audience applauded loudly at its close...
...personality involved in this choice. Both of the candidates are competent and hard-working men; both are of the highest character; both have kept their records free from charges of corruption, bossism or machine politics. But here the similarity ends. The two contestants represent ideals and policies as distant as the poles...
Republican Roosevelt. Unimportant file-closer in G. O. P. ranks, but still stumping loyally along for the party that offers him never even a dogcatcher's nomination, Colonel Teddy Jr. pounded podiums, roared that a Third Term for his distant relation would "destroy our national unity. . . . [The New Deal has] coddled Communists [and is] shot through with Communists or fellow travelers. . . . Mr. Roosevelt has fostered this cancerous growth. . . . He will never remove it. We must remove...
...double-talked its way into two victories over Harvard last night, as the New Deal was beatified in Cambridge and buffeted in New Haven, Debaters Arthur Northrup '42, James J. Pattee '41, and Eliot I Snider '41, speaking in Emerson D, received thumbs down from the judges, while their distant colleagues, Payson Wolff '42 also found a cool reception...