Word: brogans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bring those horses in here; ride 'em down." he commanded a mounted troop of Greene County Pleasure Riders. "Get back there or I'll kick you out. even if your name is Harrison Salisbury." he threatened, and as good as his word, he planted a sturdy Garst brogan on the leg of The New York Times's reporter-probably the mildest mannered of all the trespassers in the corn...
...Lord Macaulay. "This opinion," retorted President-to-be James Garfield. "leaves out the great counterbalancing force of universal education/' The focus of a European town remained the cathedral; the focus of an American town became the high school. By the 20th century, quipped Britain's Historian Denis Brogan. U.S. public education was a "formally unestablished national church...
...Wednesday Night. But Scriptwriter Robert Van Scoyk, who used to write for Jackie Gleason, clearly fixed his view on Sunday night and its two warring clans, the Sullivans and the Aliens. On either channel the image was poor. Jack Oakie's ogling, leering Bill ("Hello, you beautiful people") Brogan was a gusty old buffoon eating high off the ratings when the opposing network decided to fight him with a popular young singer (Earl Holliman). The singer had to survive Madison Avenue metaphors ("Throw Wednesday night in his lap and let him kick it around") and a scourge of publicity...
Professor Denis W. Brogan of Cambridge University stated the British position on the coming election in America by suggesting that most Englishmen don't know much at all about Nixon. He indicated, however, that if they did know much about him, they wouldn't like...
Lubell and Brogan will each deliver lectures analyzing the two major political parties and the roles that they will play in the coming campaign, and Beer will moderate the discussion...