Word: stinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little more for beer. Which means that men will either be wearing elastic-sided pleats at waist-line level, or that there will be fewer men objectionable late Saturday when the only thing that can keep a man's grin together in that fact of his weariness is the sting of liquor. This is to the good...
...Poor. Senator Long was born poor 39 years ago on a farm in northern Louisiana. When he married Rose McConnell, winner of a baking contest he staged as salesman, he borrowed from her $10 to pay the preacher. For days he has subsisted on bread & water. He knows the sting of poverty and now, for all his loud silk pajamas, $100 suits and jeweled finery, he has politically never allowed himself to forget it. His entire public appeal is as what he once was?a poor hillbilly. For years Louisiana has been familiar with his ranting campaigns against what...
Carrying his presidential drive outside his own State for the first time since the Chicago Convention, Governor Roosevelt last week journeyed to Columbus, Ohio, addressed 30,000 jubilant Democrats in the Municipal Stadium. His was a dashing, slashing speech, full of sting for the G. O. P. "The major issue in this campaign is the economic situation." he began and thereupon proceeded to flay President Hoover for his public behavior during the Depression. The Republican Party was blamed for "encouraging a vast speculative boom." Its 1928 promises of prosperity were skillfully bracketed with the actualities. Empty White House prophecies...
...Roanoke would say- he who spat at the Yazoos of his day this venomed indictment, whose sting still lasts after more than a century: "The spirit that guides them [the Yazoos of 1806]," he said, "considers the many as made only for the few-the spirit that is never so true to itself as when false to the nation." Would that our great Yahoo hero, Andrew Jackson, sat in Washington today to say as he said to a European debtor in 1831: "Pay or else. . . ." Andrew collected. He extinguished the public debt. America prospered. Ross M. BARRETT...
...lighter than that of Leroy Tudor Vernon (Chicago Daily News) or George Gould Lincoln (Washington Evening Star). Thoroughly experienced in national politics, he sometimes gives routine stories a special twist to lift them out of the obvious. Unlike his Sim colleague Frank Richardson Kent, he has no sharp sting in his pen. He specializes on complex railroad merger stories, leaves foreign affairs mostly to his smart assistant. Drew Pearson...