Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bilbo several times, and he's really a pleasant looking little man, in spite of everything you hear." So spoke Miss Roberta Maybank, Radcliffe '47, daughter of the distinguished Senator Burnet R. Maybank of South Carolina, in a statement to the press yesterday afternoon on the front steps of Whitman Hall...
...scribes fired questions and photo bulbs flashed, Miss Maybank agreed to comment on "anything but the atomic bomb." Pursuing Senator Bilbo further, she said in her sweet southern drawl, "He always wears a flower in his buttonhole," but qualified her remarks somewhat by adding, "Of course, I've only seen him when he was about to sit down to a steak dinner...
WASHINGTON --Sen. Theodore G. "The Man" Bilbo, (D.), Miss., isn't going to stand for defeat, even if "it's a joke, son," and he gets $500-a-week...
...Bilbo made this clear today when he turned down a Hollywood offer to play Senator "the Man" Leeds who loses a political victory to radio's booming-voiced, mythical Senator Claghorn...
...recently defeated all of the Senator Claghorns from north of the Mason-Dixon line as well as four local potential Claghorns--peckerwoods," Bilbo snorted...