Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon her Dobie jerks retired majors from the India service out of their club chairs. But to most people, big and little, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and many punny funny drawings remain Lear's tag to fame...
...made necessary by conditions under which we live a progress that has gone on for generations." Change comes about when these reforms fit into the social structure. Many of the "radical" measures of the Communist Manifesto of 1848 have become part of our lives after separation from their "ism" tag. Public regulation of schools, recreational centers, agriculture or business, once considered "dangerous," is now an accepted government function, and public ownership of railroads and coal mines, which was downright mutiny in 1890, has gradually come into popular favor. Hays predicts that "more and more the income of the citizen will...
Actually left in the League are none but France and Britain (and some of their proteges), Russia and small fry nations: the Scandinavian countries, 13 minor European countries, ten Latin American countries, Liberia, Turkey, the unconquered tag-end of China, the defunct Republic of Spain, and the late Kingdom of Ethiopia (as represented by Haile Selassie). This League of leftovers represents only one of Europe's two clattering armed camps, and no altercation was ever settled by having only one side sit down and talk things over...
...Ickes, who is as tough as anyone in handing out verbal socks, though a little tender on the receiving end, proceeded to tag individual columnists with some typical Ickes' characterizations. Walter Lippmann "would never even break his wooden sword unless he should trip over it in a minuet." Dorothy Thompson, "the Cassandra of the columnists*. . . a sincere and earnest lady who is trying to cover too much ground." Mark Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous...
Burr and Blaine were playing tag and were generally having "entertaining exercise" on the floating ice cakes when Patrolmen Hallion and Appelby of the Metropolitan Police arrived on the scene in answer to an emergency order to rescue "a man who had jumped into the river" from Weeks Bridge...