Word: blemishes
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...Sidney Hook, shy John Dewey shuffles his slippers, pulls at his Groucho Marx mustache, or musses his yellowing white hair in embarrassment. He speaks hesitantly in a soft Vermont twang, and is apt to preface his thoughts with a "seems like. . . ." (Says he: "My ancestry is free from all blemish. All my forefathers* earned an honest living as farmers, wheelwrights and coopers. I was absolutely the first one in seven generations to fall from grace...
...gloating. With his old-fashioned starched collar tight above a chaste pearl stickpin, he went out to remind the people of his years of toil in their behalf. With revival-meeting fervor the Boss told his followers that he was still pure at heart: "Let them point to one blemish on my record as mayor of Jersey City!" Liberation Candidate Paul E. Dougherty almost blew a gasket. Cried he: "... On a salary of never more than $8,000 he can own a summer home worth $125,000, a home in Miami ... an apartment ... a suite in New York! . . . Perhaps...
...poll-taxers. Hucy Long, who Mr. Davis says, is the arch type of political mongrel wafted to power by the illiterate and pitiable, was so wafted originally by persons paying such taxes. Next door to the bayou state, the great state of Texas whose elections have not seen the blemish of free voting for these many years, presents a noble line of public officials in support of the poll-taxer's thesis. From impeached governor to hill-billy bands, this record of public servants glitters for all to see and serves as an invincible demonstration of the superior type...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 97%; voice quality excellent, delivery excellent, mannerisms good, poise excellent. "His Harvard accent . . . would alienate him at once from the common man were it not overcome by the deep sincerity of his radio presentation." Only other noticeable blemish: the phrase "My friends," which "now seems like a radio trick...
...life as expressed in popular songs; it is Boy Meets Girl; it is Every Boy Can End Up in the White House. Hollywood is its chief dispenser. American men are its chief victims. As soon, says Odets, as an American man finds his dream girl has a blemish that wasn't in the song about her, he is through with...