Word: devlin
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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William R. Crout 3L. Milwaukee, Wis.; Mark J. Dalton 3L, Cambridge, Mass.; Richard T. Davis 2L, Medford, Mass.; Charles E. DeLong 2L, Philadelphia, Pa.; George J. Devlin 2L, Somerville, Mass.; Paul Dobin 3L, New York, N. Y.; John F. Dowd 3L, Bellaire, L. I., N. Y.; Cecil Elfenbein 3L, Erie, Pa.; Stanley M. Epstein 2L, New Bedford, Mass.; Richard B. Finn 2L, Niagara Falls, N. Y.; Nathan Fishman 3L, Union City, N. J.; David Flower, Jr. 2L, Brookline, Mass.; Myron L. Gordon 2L, Milwaukee, Wis.; Israel J. Graff 3L, Wheeling...
...line from New York's long-running Life with Father which brought down the house on election night: "Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" ^ Edward Devlin, 19-year-old University of Alabama freshman, made a 66-hour marathon speech for President Roosevelt in Tuscaloosa...
...Eighth Warders this parsimony verged on blasphemy. What would the Eighth's old saloon-frequenting boss, Good Time Buck Devlin, have said of this stinginess? Or Mr. Devlin's peers-Senator Boies Penrose, Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, "Iz" Durham, or the three Vare brothers from the Neck (South Philadelphia...
Boss Penrose, who came from Good Time Buck Devlin's Eighth Ward, was that handsome that doors opened of them selves when he passed a lady's house (Mr. Devlin's own words-from Walter Daven port's Power and Glory). Penrose also had a simple credo: "The people will stand anything from a politician who refrains from annoying them." Boss Penrose, one of whose shoes was laced with a corset-string the day he met Matt Quay, despised personal graft as cheap pocket-picking, lived mostly for the pleasures of the flesh...