Word: bulow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who, sincerely or insincerely, see ecstatic visions at the drop of a Rameau and consider Liszt slightly indecent, it is considered not quite proper to approve of Vladimir Horowitz. They sneer at this programs and at his private life, and scrupulously avoid his concerts. The days of Von Bulow, Busoni, and Rachmaninoff are gone, and Horowitz, the virtuosa of the new technique, is something of an anachronism...
South Dakota, home of big open spaces and big open faces, got ready last week for a big, open Senatorial race. All the candidates were outsize. Seventy-three-year-old William J. Bulow, Democrat and present Senator, weighs about 180 lb. and would stand a gnarl-muscled six feet, if he squared his stooped shoulders. Known as a cracker-box humorist and a bull's-eye tobacco spitter, drawling, beaked Bulow won the moniker of "Silent Bill" by speaking on the Senate floor only six times in two terms. He was a pre-war isolationist and "horse-sense" appeaser...
...Bulow's chief worry in the primaries is "Cowboy Tom" Berry, 63, who is 5 ft. 10 in. without his sombrero, weighs 195 lb. Berry is a friend of Harry Hopkins; was Governor of the State during the lean years of drought and grasshoppers. Berry has backed much of the New Deal. Also known as a South Dakota wit, Berry is needling Bulow on his pensions record...