Word: baruchly
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...hopelessly fascinated by criminal and political types ("I just loved to study Joe Adonis"). And Frank Costello, refusing to have his face televised, and finally refusing to talk at all while the cameras concentrated on his fidgeting hands, emerged as a wire-pulling colossus, a sort of bogus Bernard Baruch of the underworld...
...hunting for quail in South Carolina, Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch sprained his left leg when the stirrup broke as he dismounted from his horse. He flew north to see his Manhattan doctor, then snorted at inquiring reporters: "No, 'tain't broken, just swollen...
Last year's top man, Harry Truman, ran third. Next in order: Winston Churchill, Herbert Hoover, Senator Robert A. Taft, Bernard Baruch, Pope Pius XII, Dr. Ralph Bunche, Thomas E. Dewey. In Manhattan, the Associated American Artists offered "one of tomorrow's most treasured heirlooms . . . worthy of an honored place in your home or office": ten-inch, bronze-colored reproductions of Sculptor Jo Davidson's bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Price...
...emotions. Two New Yorkers, described by De Sola as ex-Communists who could verify his charges, also contradicted him. Fifteen ex-members of the John Reed Club denied ever knowing an Anna Rosenberg. An imposing set of endorsements of Mrs. Rosenberg poured in from George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Bernard Baruch and many others...
Westbrook Pegler got into the act with a pious statement of un-Peglerian mildness: "It is a great tragedy that in this awful hour the people of the U.S. must accept . . . the nasty malice of a President whom Bernard Baruch . . . called a rude, uncouth, ignorant man. Let us pray...