Word: bostonianism
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During the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, a local Catholic priest received a phone call from a Boston clergyman asking what steps the church was taking to cool the hostilities. The answer did not completely satisfy the Bostonian. Last fall the Little Rock priest dialed his Yankee colleague: "I'm returning your call," he said. The Bostonian hung...
...talking and triple-talking aides below? Why, in the city of the Adamses and co. is the City Council filled with the likes of Hicks and anti-everything councilman Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, a man who openly brags about the handgun he packs, whose reactionary voting record a native Bostonian friend of mine calls "one bizarre package," and who himself until recently referred to Hicks as his "steady girl...
...talking and triple-talking aides below? Why, in the city of the Adamses and co. is the City Council filled with the likes of Hicks and anti-everything councilman Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, a man who openly brags about the handgun he packs, whose reactionary voting record a native Bostonian friend of mine calls "one bizarre package," and who himself until recently referred to Hicks...
Harry Crosby, a wealthy Bostonian of good family and, from his relatives' point of view, regrettable literary pretensions, painted his toenails red one December afternoon in 1929 in a Manhattan apartment he had borrowed from an artist friend. He lounged in bed a while, swigging Scotch companionably with his mistress, Josephine Rotch Bigelow, a beautiful young married woman from another prominent Back Bay clan. Then, apparently with her enthusiastic approval, and in the best of moods, he killed her with a pistol, and a couple of hours later shot himself. The soles of his feet were found...
...greatest painter this country has yet produced. Still only 38, he is just now reaching the peak of his powers. There is scarcely an eminent person in Boston who has not sat for him, and his portrait of Silversmith Paul Revere is masterly. (He has also portrayed many non-Bostonian notables like Thomas Mifflin, who was recently made a brigadier general in the Continental Army.) But it was his fortune, or misfortune, to marry the daughter of Boston's most successful dealer in tea, Richard Clarke, and it was Clarke's tea that the Sons of Liberty threw...