Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very well trust him," groused redheaded Tom Scully, Los Angeles Truman stalwart. "This is a lot different from The Bronx where the name Roosevelt means something. The people here will fill a ballpark to see a Roosevelt-or a Clark Gable or a Lana Turner, of a Frankenstein. But they won't vote for them." Most of the Truman professionals preferred California's E. George Luckey, the swashbuckling Imperial Valley cattleman who had been widely advertised as President Truman's favorite California Democrat...
Diverting Frankenstein. Damon Runyon's Broadway stories were highly readable and amusing; to a large following, they stood for incisive reporting of U.S. big-city life. But, as he himself seemed to know, Runyon had created a kind of literary Frankenstein: the formula that brought him fame and money also limited his growth as a writer...
Monstrous. In Milwaukee, Arno Frankenstein petitioned for a change of name because people keep phoning and asking to speak to the monster...
...shoe-button eyes twinkling and his walrus mustache abristle, Monteux bounced in the front door. He dodged around a full-sized replica of a cable car, wheeled down the main aisle between two rows of beaming debutantes. The San Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein reported he "marched embar-rassedly." Said wife Doris Monteux, 54, who does most of Pierre's talking: "Embarrassedly, my eye . . . He's just like an old circus horse. He's awfully sophisticated, but awfully innocent...
...cannot concede even to legitimate management claims. His concrete achievements must surpass even the airy promises of rival factions. The employers who propose this measure in the interests of "union democracy" are doing a disservice to the cause of good labor-management relations. And they will be creating a Frankenstein monster from which they will find escape both difficult and costly...