Word: swallowed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...wrong foot by using a virtually uncut version of the play. This mistake he tried to remedy by having the cast race through some of their lines, swallow others. Whatever virtues the production had were purely pictorial, for the comedy scenes missed fire, the romantic scenes lacked...
...inescapable conclusion is that the President is backing an interventionist policy that is too hot for public opinion to swallow right now. Reading his confidential cables, he must see dangers to America that place him so squarely in the Allied camp that he is afraid to speak out. Most Americans don't want to go to war, and can think of a lot of measures short of war that they don't want to adopt, either. If the President told them what he knows, maybe they would change their minds. Maybe...
Senator Harrison and the conservative Democrats favor Cordell Hull as the logical compromise 1940 candidate. Defeat of his trade agreements meant political death to the one man within the New Deal they can swallow. Democrats of all hues intended Mr. Hull to win. Yet many a Western Democrat still felt he must first go on record against the agreements in order to convince farm, cattle and mining interests that he was fighting for them...
...Congressman still felt self-conscious about tossing around the taxpayers' money. Commerce Committee Chairman Josiah William Bailey, of North Carolina, decided to cut the $412,638,600 Rivers-&-Harbors Authorization Bill in four parts, on the theory that this quartering would make the whole bill easier to swallow. Pork-hungry Senator Bailey sizzled defensively at the immediate insinuation that he was rolling out four pork barrels, let alone...
...sacrifice their lives without a moment's hesitation." A jumble of mysticisms and paradoxes, His Lordship's speech is termed by the New York Times "a Chesterfield essay. . (which) may become a wartime classic." But whatever its literary merits, Halifax's hate-tirade is a biter pill to swallow after the British government's repeated assertions that Britain fights the Nazi government, not the German people...