Word: borah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arranged for the state funeral of Idaho's Borah (see below), adjourned in sorrow to await...
...Bryan and 16-to-1 Silver in 1896, striding back unchastened to the Republican Party in 1900. He was a theatrical, compelling, blackmaned orator, bewitching the people into making the Legislature send him to the U. S. Senate in 1907. Thereafter, until he died last week, he was Borah of Idaho...
Last week the Capitol Plaza in Washington was white with snow. Through the windows of Suite 139 in the Senate Office Building, the trees a-nod with ice beckoned William Edgar Borah to his customary walk in the Plaza park. But first, he had a little work...
...blue shawl, two white pillows and an Army blanket (which he sometimes wore like a toga on cold afternoons in the park) ; on the wall, a framed copy of Stanzas on Freedom by James Russell Lowell; on the mantel, two ancient lamps and a cane, carved of wood from Borah Peak in Idaho. The secretaries in the outer office heard his full, fluid voice; the Senator was reading, aloud and twice over, some document which he wanted to memorize. Thus read, it would join his vast store from the Bible, Shakespeare, Britain's Burke and Fox and Pitt, Massachusetts...
...read his mail and inquired about a Negro woman who had asked him to get her a job. He requested his young clerk, Charles Corker, to pick him up in the park around 4:30 and motor him home. "Are you sure you have the time?" twice asked Borah of Idaho, mindful that the stripling had pre-law classes to attend. Reassured, overcoated (without the blanket), the Senator trudged out of the office, along the echoing basement corridor, across Delaware Avenue to the park. His frail frame was stooped. His mane, still growing grandly down to his collar, was greying...