Word: claghorning
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...your June 2 edition, you mention "South Carolina's Harold Cooley." Senator Claghorn won't like this, but U.S. Representative Harold Dunbar Cooley hails from North Carolina's Fourth Congressional District...
...Ajax Cassidy. 4. Senator Beauregard Claghorn...
...That's a joke, son," quipped one of the editors of the Lampoon yesterday, and Kenny Delmar, better known to his kids as Senator Claghorn, burst into an uncontrollable spasm of gallus snapping. This worthy had come north from his New York publicity agent's office to accept the sheepskin of "Doctor of Lamphonery" in the Bow Direct aviary. Everybody thought it was a riot when it turned out to be a sheep, everybody but the sheep, that...
...Senator Beauregard Claghorn (Kenny Delmar), a julep-slupping burlesque of a Southern politico, a latter-day Civil Warrior with a mouth as big as the Mississippi's and a brain the size of a hominy grit. The Senator's development has been arrested in an artistic sense, too. After only six minutes on the air (four programs), his "That's a joke, son!" and "That is" were national bywords. Allen, who intended the Senator to have a far larger comic vocabulary, has been forced to give the public what it wants: plenty of nothing...
...Joke, Son (Eagle-Lion) brings radio's unreconstructible Senator Claghorn (Kenny Delmar) to the screen. The movie shows how he became a Senator despite his wife (Una Merkel), who also ran, and a bunch of Yankee-accented political gangsters. The Claghorn delivery rings out as nobly as the Voice of Bugle Ann. Visually the Senator is not so convincing, and his vehicle grates and clatters like loose buggy tires on a concrete pike...