Word: buffed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friends at Whistle. For years Johnson kept Garrick out of his famous literary club because "He'll disturb us by his buf-foonery." Wrote Oliver Goldsmith, whom Garrick had rebuffed when he wrote his first play...
Then the message came; Harry Truman summoned him-buf not a moment too soon. In the excitement someone at the White House typed the announcement that the President would confer that afternoon with "Mr." Charles O'Neill (head of the northern mine operators) and the "Hon." John Lewis. Triumphantly, the Hon. John Lewis acted. As he had once ruined Franklin Roosevelt's show by proclaiming the end of a strike 15 minutes before Roosevelt went on the air to castigate him, he now spoiled Harry Truman's show. Three hours before he was due at the White...