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When the voters ended his 36-year reign as boss of Jersey City back in 1949, hard-eyed old Frank Hague still clung to one lever of political control-his longtime membership on the Democratic National Committee. The imperial power which had won Millionaire Hague his bulging bank account and his $100,000 summer home was over. New Jersey's Democratic vote was no longer his to deliver. But old habits die hard. Hague went on playing the part of kingmaker...
...ordinary woman would have sulked a bit and then set out for new conquests. But not Ora. She clung to brother David and sister Ellen with parasitic humility. When they had babies, she came for long visits to help around the house. Soon she was there to stay, slavishly waiting upon and subtly corrupting her brother-in-law. Still prim & proper, she cast her body before him, and while David did not succumb, he was vain enough to enjoy her worship. By hints he urged her not to marry, and she was delighted to obey...
Although his domestic policy has been less successful, existing international tensions forced him to devote most of his early administration years to foreign affairs. During his seven years, he has bravely and stubbonly clung to his demand for a Civil Rights program. He has refused to compromise. Perhaps politically this will prove regrettable since Civil Rights is a complex and sensitive issue; it cannot be enacted overnight. If he played the game of give and take, he might have pushed some domestic legislation through; now he has none...
First there was lolanthe, an Italian baron's daughter, who "clung to him grinding her mouth against his so that he felt bruised, her mouth, and the whole warm length of her, silken clad, so that he was scalded breast and thigh, shaken terrified kindled deathlost uncaring thinking for this I will be killed and at the same time that it was worth the dying, and boldly he freed his hands from about her waist and pushing aside her one garment caressed her bare flesh roughly almost brutally as though she were a peasant girl...
They never made it. Caught in the turbulent waters off Portland Bill in the south of England, Reliance was sent crashing on the rocks. For a whole night the Davisons clung to a tiny cork float in the freezing seas. Through pure luck, Ann was flung ashore, climbed away from the sea's reach with her last strength. Frank's adventure had ended sooner; his drowned body was found among the rocks...