Word: clarksburger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Private Book. After graduation, he found no likely place in Virginia to set up a law practice, so he crossed over into West Virginia, settled in Clarksburg, and set out to run things. Elected to the State House of Delegates, he was made majority floor leader in his first term, at 26. Three months later, the U.S. entered World War I, and Johnson went off to fight through the Meuse-Argonne offensive as a captain of infantry. He returned with a hatful of ideas on what was wrong with the Army. On an impulse which was later to become...
...Army was so impressed with Johnson's ideas on personnel and purchasing that he was offered a majority on the spot. Johnson wasn't interested. He went back to Clarksburg, married Ruth Maxwell, one of the richest, prettiest girls in town, and took up where he had left...
Exalted Ruler. The junior partner of Steptoe & Johnson, a joiner of joiners, was soon president of the Clarksburg Rotary, Exalted Ruler of the Elks, a rising leader of the American Legion...
Louis Johnson, the man who had never before known a major setback, poured out his hurt and humiliation in a note of resignation to his "Dear Mr. President." Then he went back to Clarksburg to brood on man's infidelity to man-and to commit his thoughts to paper in a book which still rests in the Johnson safe-deposit...
...moved into a handsome ten-room mansion in Clarksburg, puttered with a valuable collection of jade in his off-hours and tended two hutches of black & white squirrels. The two Johnson girls grew up and moved away...