Word: anthonyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mining Heiress Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, ex-wife of ex-Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., left Manhattan for London, leaving behind some literary mementos: dinner-partner cards which she had written herself for a farewell party for the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Her tribute to the duchess:
A few hours later police found the friend - a scared, black-eyed 14-year-old named Anthony. At first, the boy acted tough ("Get those reporters outta here," he told police. "I don't want no pitchers took"), but gradually it all came out,
He had planned his campaign over sodas at an ice-cream store. With four other kids (none of them Fort Hamilton students), he set out in a stolen car that was loaded with rifles and ammunition he had stolen earlier from a Coney Island shooting gallery. Everything went according to...
Just in case Miss Jokiel hadn't been scared enough, Anthony had persuaded the smartest friend he knew to take the exam in his place (the smart kid got a 43).
Why had he done it? Said Anthony: "I got a zero in the first term. I was afraid to muff this exam. I figured my old man would beat hell outta me."