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...nevertheless maintained his pro-abortion stand. It takes courage for a Congresswoman like Maryland's Barbara Mikulski, whose Baltimore area is heavily Catholic, to fight the right-to-lifers as resolutely as she has. "I am a professionally trained social worker," she explains. "I know what the coat-hanger abortion is all about...
Carter's suit coat is draped over the arm of the couch, the label up: "Hart Schaffner & Marx, A. Cohen & Sons, Americus, Ga." The walls ripple with impressionism. Behind his chair is Childe Hassam's Flag Day, and to his right another Hassam, Old House at Easthampton. Near the door, Niagara Falls plunges silently, a swirl of delicate blues and pinks in an oil by John Twachtman. Fronting the desk is a huge painting of Rosalynn and Amy from the days in the Georgia statehouse, simple, almost ethereal...
...ears and into his eyes. He always looked wet, and fixin' to die from pleurisy and lung concer from the Lucky Strike that was always in the corner of his mouth. Like a big bedraggled hairy bassett hound, with great hazel eyes and a wet nose. He wore a coat he's finagled from the Freshman Coat Fund two winters ago, or a corduroy jacket he'd bought second-hand, levis, and boots. He was a psychotic...
While the librarians madly scrambled for these orphaned ink'guns, someone spotted an unusually fat student running towards the exit. An official shouted 'stop him!' the student was tackled, and the mystery was solved: as the corpulent criminal went flying, his coat flew open, and enough pens to staff the Pentagon came flying out, blissfully freed. Psychiatrists were summoned to the scene when it was proved that the fanatical pen-depositer was actually a crazed grad student, seeking revenge upon the institution on which he had fed in the only way he knew: sabotage...
...Passage. She loved that work, loved having "a hundred people clutching at my coat, clamoring for autographs." And loving it, she stretched her stay at the top far longer than most women ever do. She made her first powerful impression as the good-hearted flapper in the 1928 silent Our Dancing Daughters. She did musicals (she was Fred Astaire's first movie dancing partner) and a string of pictures opposite Clark Gable...