Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back-scratching in which every politico, including many a Senator, indulges as unconsciously as he blinks and breathes. Stern old North Carolina Democrat Clyde Hoey, who was running the show, warned them several times not to belabor "chicken feed" points. Vaughan himself maintained an attitude of outraged virtue, and spoke at all times with the heavy-breathing sincerity of a brush salesman talking through a locked front door...
...seminary, Louis is still remembered for his philosophical discussions with his professor-priests and his probing questions in Latin. He also spoke fluent English, taught him by his Irish-Canadian mother (Mary Ann Broderick St. Laurent) and his bilingual father. After St. Laurent became Prime Minister, a newsman asked an old schoolmate, the Rev. Canon Dolor Biron of Sherbrooke, for incidents of St. Laurent's college days. Said the canon: "Mr. St. Laurent is a man who does not have incidents...
...Thus spoke the founder of modern Zionism, the bearded Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl, some years before he was buried at Vienna's Döblinger Friedhof in 1904. Last week, the body of Theodor Herzl was given a ceremonial reburial in the city that he had remembered without delight...
Greenbacks & Compounds. In 1878, Dan, who had something of his mother's radicalism in him, ran for the Massachusetts legislature as candidate of the Greenback and Workingmen's Parties. When he spoke at a rally there were cheers for "the Pinkham Boys of Lynn," and, for good measure, another for the compound. Lydia wrote Dan's campaign literature, doggedly weaving puffs for her compound into Greenback propaganda. She urged votes for those who "fight against such an accursed financial system. Thousands of people who are paying for this mismanagement are today suffering from KIDNEY COMPLAINTS, DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION...
...aware of the gifts he did not have; he once said he would have given everything he had done for the spontaneous lyric quality of Suckling or Lovelace. As a philosophical poet he almost never crystallized the clouds of theistic faith that filled his head. The great Lord Acton spoke of "the airiness of his metaphysics, the indefiniteness of his knowledge, his neglect of transitions." His criticism was put more gaily by Algernon Swinburne in his parody of Tennyson's Higher Pantheism...