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...McCarran stared stonily at Vice President Alben Barkley in the chair. McCarran's strategy was to allow his opponents to use up all their allotted time, leaving him the last, unanswerable word. The leader of his opponents, West Virginia's chunky, Fair Dealing Harley Kilgore, as stubbornly clung to his allowance of 39 minutes to be used after McCarran. Barkley asked if McCarran wanted to use or to yield any of his time. No, said McCarran, and sat down again...
...Just a Housewife." As a result, women have clung to the "biologically fantastic notion that to be different from men is to be inferior to men." Having no respect for themselves, they seem to prefer to have men speak at their clubs, to work for male bosses, and to vote for a second-rate man in an election rather than a first-rate woman. Since they no longer churn the butter, make the candles, plow the fields, or even bring their husbands a dowry, they are deeply plagued by a "sense of parasitism...
Even after a new man was appointed, the lady bellringer clung to her job and to her three small rooms behind the cathedral. Finally the dean took steps to evict her. "This is no job for a woman," he said. "Of her six girls, two are practically young women now. The sensible thing is to force her to leave." Said a young Lima matron: "The dean is right. Her daughters are pretty and that is likely to make people talk." At week's end, after receiving a cash indemnity, the lady bellringer was turned out of her rooms. Said...
...Songs. As the water rose, the men floated to the top of the compartment and clung to overhead beams. The air was hot and foul. Somebody cracked: "This is one thing you can't blame on the Socialist government," and somebody laughed. Somebody started a song; the rest joined in. Afterwards, Cook Ray Fry said: "It didn't seem long, because everyone laughed and joked as if they were in the local [pub]. But you felt bad inside...
Reverend Henry Dunster succeeded Eaton and built the first college buildings, placing the dining room in Harvard Hall. In spite of his more orderly system, and the largest kitchen in New England, the College had established a reputation for poor food that, according to one historian, "clung to it for more than two centuries...