Word: democratism
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...mean?' I asked gently. Then he said there's a new order prohibiting indecent bathing suits and that I was a shameless girl. Why that dirty flatfoot wasn't even a Roman. My Mario says it's all the fault of that rowdy Christian Democrat Scelba, and the walloping that's in store for me when mama hears about it will be his fault too, the s.o.b...
Mugwumps. In Democrat, Ky., the postmistress totted up, announced that Republicans outnumbered Democrats...
...general strike which fizzled. When he knew that he was beaten in the effort to make a revolution out of the attack on Togliatti, Communist Labor Boss Giuseppe di Vittorio rose in the Assembly to announce that the Labor Federation had called off the general strike. Interrupted a Christian Democrat: "Because it failed." Crimson with rage, Di Vittorio screamed: "Why do you laugh? What is there to laugh at?" Bedlam broke loose in the Assembly. While a line of ushers kept them from getting at each other, Christian Democrats and Communists hurled pencils and pens at each other and screamed...
...days, the seven-member Federal Communications Commission had long been a man's affair. But last week it, too, succumbed. Beamed FCC Chairman Wayne Coy: "We've had rectitude, fortitude, and solemnitude, but never before pulchritude." Thereupon pulchritudinous Frieda Hennock, successful Manhattan lawyer and active Democrat, was sworn in as the 24th commissioner in FCC's 14 years...
...York's public schools, Frieda Hennock bucked parental disapproval to study law. At 21 she became the youngest woman member of the New York State Bar. Later she joined the rock-ribbed Republican law firm of Choate, Mitchell & Ely, where she was the only woman lawyer and only Democrat. She has never married (although "I believe in marriage and I want the companionship of a wonderful...