Word: bolton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beltline" districts; Mississippi had a "shoestring" district, 40 miles wide and 600 miles long; and Massachusetts still has a scrawny, lizard-shaped district, resembling the original gerrymander, laid out in 1812 to preserve the political power of Governor Elbridge Gerry. In Ohio's 22nd District, Representative Frances P. Bolton served 698,650 constituents, but in the 10th District, Representative Thomas A. Jenkins spoke for only 180,482 people...
...public figure who has paid too heavily, in inner hardness and human loss, for the world's prizes. Even between him and the daughter he loves there is a gulf, now widened by her engagement to another such aging man of distinction as himself. Numb and parched, Josiah Bolton (Clive Brook) casts about for an unobtrusive way to die. But in time his daughter (Margaret Phillips) makes him feel her need...
...more than once he pierced to the Puritan inside the worldling, the hair shirt beneath the dinner jacket. Barry was rather fascinated by the guilt that wouldn't come off the gingerbread. But in Second Threshold too much is not explained: Barry never really comes to grips with Bolton, nor Bolton with himself. And the play fishes in waters too dark to hook so flabby a solution...
Retired Marine Brigadier General James P. S. Devereux, hero of Wake Island, established a beachhead against Maryland's Democratic Representative William P. Bolton by announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination...
...third day Violet was up again bright & early to drive more miles. Once during the day, she hoisted herself on an open truck while an audience of electrical workers sang "For he's a jolly good fellow" to her husband. On the Attlees drove to Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Lancaster and across the Scottish border to Kilmarnock where heavy snow made the going rough...