Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, talking to distinguished members, having her picture taken, carrying messages. She was Gene Cox, 13, eye-apple youngest daughter of Georgia's cantankerous Representative Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Over the protests of Doorkeeper Joe Sinnott, who feared it would "get into the newspapers" and start a rush by other doting parents to have the same done for their girls, Father Cox had Gene sworn in as his House page, for that one day. She earned a U. S. Treasury check for $4 for her 2 hours, 33 minutes of "work." At Washington's Market School, where...
Almost as common an effect is a marked tendency to garrulousness, not quite in the ordinary manic form of a rush of speech with a flight of ideas, but rather like the sprightly chatter of the good conversationalist who knows he is good...
...marathon. He finds that the mad dashings, the enforced gaieties which have so far characterized his holiday activities have now a thin crust of ice tinging their edges. In a so-white, so-virginal, so-hushed world, it becomes unseemly to talk loudly and vacuously with hometown people, to rush hastily from place to place, and to find final lodgement at the noisiest, the most crowded, most frenzied party-dance. But that is what everyone he knows insists on doing. And likewise he must...
...drove up to Washington, following a barrage of telegrams and letters, and made life miserable for White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre until three weeks later, having industriously backed Mr. Roosevelt into a corner, he received word from Mclntyre that the President would really come. Voit Gilmore then had to rush around raising $350 expense money. He told his hard-working mother (whom he calls "Bimble") that he felt as though he had "landed a whale on a trout hook." At last, this week, came the great day. Voit Gilmore rode over from Chapel Hill to the railroad station at Sanford...
...through, scrambles for seats, and clamors for food: this approximates the scene which takes place each week in these Houses. And this mass sits and waits while a small group of tutors and undergraduates eat in tuxedo splendor to the tune of choice "dinner-table" conversation. Until the subway rush on the nights of House dinners is eliminated and some method produced to let the uninvited majority eat at its pleasure, it appears improbable that the idea of the House dinner will be adopted by the other units...