Word: grouch
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week a statistical novice, buxom Columnist Dorothy Thompson, told her 7,500,000 readers that the experts were screwloose. Speaking through her mythical breakfast companion The Grouse (grouch), who quarrels with her for being stupid and writes on the tablecloth,*Miss Thompson proved to her own satisfaction that not nine nor ten nor twelve million, but only two million were unemployed...
...describing F. D. R.'s greeting of "Hello, Grouch," to Secretary Ickes, TIME said ". . . Secretary of Interior Ickes, who had eaten some crab meat for lunch and was wishing he hadn...
Pausing outside the chamber of the House of Representatives, Franklin Roosevelt shouted laughingly to Secretary of Interior Ickes, who had eaten some crab meat for lunch and was wishing he hadn't, "Hello, Grouch." Then the President, in a grey cutaway, walked with smiling dignity into a joint session of Congress to deliver his eighth annual message on the State of the Nation...