Word: butlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carolina's jaded Jimmy Byrnes. Attorney General Brownell had pushed Ike into action, Byrnes said, because Brownell was frightened by "the high command of the national Democratic Party" and its attacks on the President's do-nothing attitude. In the high command he identified National Chairman Paul Butler, Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams. "Goaded" by these Democrats, he said, "the President and Mr. Brownell had to take drastic action in order to hold the voters of these minority groups." Almost to a man, Deep...
From the North, in response to these moans among the magnolias, came rapid assurance that Liberal Democrats no longer cared a Yankee damn about Southern salvation. National Chairman Butler lightly dismissed threats of a Southern bolt; said he: "The balance of power is moving towards the Pacific." Said Illinois Liberal Paul Douglas of a third party: "I would welcome it. It would mean getting the Dixiecrats out of our party...
...Joyce's Ulysses, proclaimed (by Irish critics and himself) the world's greatest conversationalist, playwright (The Enchanted Trousers), poet (Wild Apples, Selected Poems), author (as I Was Going Down Sackville Street, Going Native), surgeon (eye, ear, nose, throat), sometime athlete (bicycle sprints), who was dubbed by William Butler Yeats "one of the great lyric poets of our age"; in Manhattan. A onetime senator of the Irish Free State (1922-36), he loved to badger Republicans ("Whenever De Valera contradicts himself, he's right"). Characterizing an Irishman as one "who believes best what he knows to be untrue...
...said Dwight Eisenhower, via press secretary James C. Hagerty, "that we took a bad licking." Said Vice President Richard M. Nixon: "It was the old story of a united, vigorous minority party with a hard-fighting, resourceful candidate defeating a divided, bickering, over-confident majority." Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler called it "a smashing repudiation of the Eisenhower Administration and Modern Republicanism...
More often than not, today's maid-hunting housewife will not find just what she wants-she never could. The supermaid, the magnificent cook, the perfect butler have always been jewels beyond price; Catherine of Aragon had the same problem. The surprising thing is that the standard, oldtime maid of all work has practically disappeared from the U.S. scene. Like everybody else, the modern domestic is a specialist-or at least acts like one. Many maids will not mind children; a special "mother's helper" does that for an extra 50? an hour. Others do not do heavy...