Word: freakishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even with the exclusion of Grocer Norris, the Republican senatorial contest remained freakish. Candidate of the Old Guard against Senator Norris was State Treasurer William M. Stebbins. Running also was Aaron Reed, 85, "sopping wet," white-bearded Madison lawyer who denounced Senator Norris as "the Great Objector, the stumbling block in the way of efficient legislation...
...Berlin reception was stimulated by more than a freakish operatic frame work. Christopher Columbus was written by two famed Frenchmen, by Poet Paul Claudel, Ambassador to the U. S., and Composer Darius Milhaud. Milhaud is also a onetime diplomat. Wartime Paris was a poor hunting-ground for young musicians. Many were forced to other means of livelihood and Milhaud, a prize Conservatory graduate, went to Brazil in 1917 as attaché to the French legation there. In two years, however, he was back in Paris, leader of the Six? whose modern musical renown grew from their union. For some critics even...
...Democrat, he has shown an individual talent for legislation. His political and economic theories cause him to swing naturally into line with the Norris-La Follette Insurgent faction of the Senate G. O. P. He exhibits no capability as a minority party leader. His votes are generally independent, sometimes freakish (he was the only Democrat to vote against the special session adjournment). A good partisan, he flays the Old Guard and what he calls G. O. P. "imperialism" so vigorously that many a conservative mistakes him for a radical. In industry and intelligence he is above the Senate average...