Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the session barely under way, the House was beginning to look like a progressive-school kindergarten. One day last week, New York Democrat Andrew Somers, who has been around the House long enough (24 years) to know better, shouted "idiot" at Nebraska Republican Arthur Miller. Speaker Sam Rayburn was determined to enforce decorum before his 89 freshmen could pick up such uncouth habits. He got the House's Emily Post, professorial Representative George Dondero of Michigan, to lecture the boys...
Arizona's wizened, choleric Clarence Pudington Kelland took it from there. Said Kelland: "Scott . . . is a symbol of the ineptitude and of the betrayal of the Republican Party . . . He was only a ghost wandering around looking for a campaign to haunt." Iowa's Harrison Spangler, onetime national chairman, was next...
...voice often began, "Hello, gang . . ." It reminded "all you kids" of the girls back home. "I just wonder if she isn't sort of running around with . . . 4-Fs . . ." It suggested ". . . throw down those little old guns and toddle off home . . . there's no getting the Germans down . . ." "What," it asked, "will [wounded men] think in later years when there are no jobs for cripples...
Frankie Costello is an underworldling with a difference: he has more money than most bank presidents and he never seems to be around when any rough stuff is going on. This enables him to maintain a snug Manhattan apartment and a big house in the Long Island countryside, to contribute to worthy causes, and to control as many Tammany politicians as he finds convenient...
...long ago. Abraham ran to tell his wife Zahava. Their firstborn, Arie, was cutting his first teeth; he would be a Jew of Israel, the first of Abraham's family in centuries not to have another nationality. Abraham and Zahava and others in the camp built a bonfire; around it they danced the Hora to celebrate the end of their bitter, lifelong journey...