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...potbellied crooks. Is the presidential face august, humane, agleam with probity? John Adams might have been cast as Scrooge or a consecrated bookkeeper. John Quincy Adams looked incipiently satanic. James Monroe's bug-eyed visage might have got him followed by the FBI in the 1960s. Martin Van Buren's sweetly cunning countenance could have belonged to a real estate shark. William Henry Harrison looked bilious. Millard Fillmore at times resembled a triumph of dishevelment. William McKinley, says Edmund Morris in The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, seemed the perfect picture of a President - but only "from the neck...
...discussion and disagreement even to the point of being willing to change our minds." If the Harvard administration continues to ignore moral problems and if students continue to press the issues on the administration in increasingly forceful ways, then Bok has no one but himself to blame. Greg Van Buren '81 Georgia Hill '81 BSA Representatives Margo Nelson '81 Dan Lashof '81 DSOC Representatives Matthew Rothschild '80 Peter Sacks '79-2 SASC Representatives
...last May able to grab Peanuts away from the New York Post, where it had appeared for a decade. Syndicates raid each other's rosters as well. In one of the most spectacular snatches in syndicate annals, the Chicago Tribune-New York News in 1966 spirited Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby") away from her longtime home at the McNaught Syndicate, reportedly by promising her far more than the standard fifty-fifty syndicate split on gross revenues...
...many people would write "Dear Popo" or "Dear Eppie" for advice on love or etiquette, so the celebrated sisters became Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers when they went into the counseling-by-column business. But back in Sioux City, Iowa, last week they were Popo (Pauline Esther) and Eppie (Esther Pauline) Friedman again at the 40th reunion of their high school class. Abby was amazed that 300 of the 400 in the original class turned out: "I figured only the thin and the rich would attend." Did her old classmates seek Abby's advice? "Well, a few asked...
...self-styled presidential impersonator does impressions of Van Buren, Madison and Polk without ever changing his voice. On a program featuring hard-luck stories, a contestant with a pain fully stooped back is awarded a free trip to the top of the Statue of Liberty...