Word: grips
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...City Hall by Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, has been working with might & main for weeks to build up Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, Walker's gauche but apparently honest successor, into a respected character for next November's municipal election. Upon his success depends Tammany's grip on the city government. Last week Tammany received an unexpected boost when Judge Seabury told the Yale Daily News...
...sense as to detail. Herbert Clark Hoover who found that there was "something wrong with the blueprints", Franklin Delano Roosevelt who would "rather walk than be president", "Humpty-Dumpty" Ivar Krauger of the "great fall", "Playboy" Jimmy of the "Primrose Path", Smith Reynolds "who had never quite got a grip on life", Dr. Rosenbach whose "little gold pencil flipped up" -- all these and a hundred more slide into memory and out again with epigrammatic case. There is nothing new or startling or illuminating; but through all the superficiality there is a sure touch, here flippancy, here sober sentimentality. Mr. Hill...
...spawned mutiny. Tennessee's hulking Browning, A. E. F. field artillery captain, induced the caucus to adopt an amendment prohibiting the President from discontinuing a single pension now on the rolls and limiting his cuts to 25%. For the moment Speaker Rainey and Leader Byrns had lost their grip on their party, for the Browning amendment practically nullified the bill's purpose. If the caucus had bound itself to that proposition, President Roosevelt would have been ditched by his own House. But it takes a two-thirds caucus vote to bind. The party leaders, no greenhorns, skilfully shifted...
...unfortunate if unavoidable fact. Undergraduate opinion almost unanimously would condemn the course as dull to the point of stupidity, uninspiring, and relatively uninstructive. Leaders in the de- partment have replied to the writer's criticism that the lecture system is incapable of giving the student a firm and realistic grip on the difficult problems of economic theory. They point to past experience for support. With unconcealed sense of martyrdom they explain how and why the lecture system was abandoned in the past. The fact remains, however, that dissatisfaction with the course is almost universal in the student body...
Author Ford Madox Ford, an almost U. S.-acclimatized Britisher, still makes little leaps in the dark when he comes to some Americanisms. He writes of a woman getting drunk as "canning herself"; makes Hero Smith figure out that the foreign word "valise" means "grip"; but neglects to translate "spanner" into monkey wrench...