Word: aloysius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study." It is Franklin Roosevelt's particular room-the place where he reads, works, ponders, fondles his blue-bound naval scrapbooks, welcomes intimate friends for intimate talks. One afternoon last week, the President and a friend had a long talk in the little study. The friend was James Aloysius Farley...
...Major Quisling is to be congratulated. He has performed the rarish feat of turning a proper name into a common one, and in so doing has made sure that in a future life he will find himself in a distinguished circle. In addition to Captain Boycott, Aloysius Hansom will be there; also those two redoubtable Scots, Charles M. Macintosh and John Loudon McAdam; and the first Lord Brougham and the fourth Earl of Sandwich and the great Duke of Wellington in his famous boots...
Second Democrat to realize that no Presidential blessing would come his way was James Aloysius Farley, Postmaster General and Politician Plenipotentiary to the New Deal (TIME, April 11). Third came last week, when Paul Vories McNutt, Federal Security Administrator, his back a mass of stab wounds from his New Deal friends, hurriedly got leave from his duties to take his case to the country. But Big Jim Farley was already on his way. No one (but Mr. Farley) doubts that he knows, by first name, 10,000 people all over the U. S. Mr. Farley's only doubt...
...James Aloysius Farley. Big Jim, 51, 6 ft. 2 in., 215 Ib. of partisan good will, "the man who has done most for Grassy Point, New York" (where he was born), is also the man who has done most for Franklin Roosevelt. Last week Big Jim, still living down his unearned reputation as an out-&-out politician and therefore a low fellow, traveled through Midwest, Border and Southern towns, trying to do for himself in a quiet way what he did so clamorously for his boss. On Mule Day in Columbia, Tenn., Big Jim played Titania to a mule, Prince...
...hundreds facts and anecdotes which intensify the significance of this quiet life and the image of the man himself. What he does still more valuably is to quote with some abundance from Joyce's own letters, unpublished verses and notebooks. Sample facts: His middle names are Augustine Aloysius; he used to sign himself Jas. A. Joyce. During his first visit to Paris, when he was 20, he often had no food for 40 hours at a stretch, was speechless with toothache when he did eat. At around 19, under the influence of Ibsen, he wrote a five-act play...