Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later Boyle reminisced: "We lived in a big, old-fashioned house, and I remember the Trumans used to come over and visit us on Sundays. What I remember best were the political picnics the party used to hold every summer at Lone jack, Mo., outside Kansas City. These were hell-roaring, rip-snorting affairs with the loudest & longest speeches you ever heard. The President loved those picnics, never missed one." Boyle recalled listening to the President's St. Louis speech just before the 1948 election. "About halfway through, he began talking off the cuff...
...years of pursuing the fast buck around the national capital, weedy Little John Maragon never seemed to be getting anywhere. He was an anxious glad-hander of big men, a hanger-on at the White House, a willing errand-runner and a great fellow for cadging free rides in official trains and limousines. But he lived in a middlebrow house in the suburbs, moaned about the cost of groceries, and looked like a part-time shoe clerk. Most of the capital was inclined to agree when his fellow countryman, Greek-born Promoter William G. Helis, said...
Witness Cedric R. Worth turned out to be a big, balding, 49-year-old bureaucrat in pince-nez glasses, a onetime Hollywood scripter, wartime Navy commander, and now a $10,305-a-year special assistant to the Under Secretary of the Navy. Chairman Vinson plunged right...
...Big as a Dam. The state of Washington, through apathy, ignorance and sympathy, found itself stuck with a welfare system that was even gaudier than California's Proposition 4. One out of every twelve persons in the state would get financial assistance for two years and the other eleven would pay almost as much to keep them as the Government spent building Grand Coulee Dam. Unless it instituted a sizable new tax program, the state was almost certain to go into...
...Roseanna opens, all is quiet on the Hatfield-McCoy front. Over in West Virginia, the hot-tempered, hard-drinking Hatfields are helling about after bear and possum in their own backyard. On the Kentucky side of the Big Sandy River, the hard-working McCoys are peaceably tending their taters and corn. But the armistice is not to last. When young Johnse Hatfield (Farley Granger) falls in love with Roseanna McCoy (Joan Evans) and carries her off to be his bride, hell breaks loose on the border. In no time at all, every Hatfield in the hills is blazing away...