Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Made public, through a White House announcement, the titles of his favorite books: the Bible, Shakespeare's plays, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
Snickers & Shudders. Today Osborn lives on a Connecticut farm, relaxed and happily at peace with the world until he sits down to draw. Then he spears humanity's Dilberts with the savage drawings that have appeared in such magazines as LIFE, FORTUNE, Look and Holiday. "This," he scrawls in the preface to Low & Inside, "is about the steady plight of man; the anarchy of his laughter and the terrifying lawfulness of his tragedies." Whether readers should snicker or shudder at his insane world, even Osborn doesn't know. "Humor is a funny business," says...
...Wall Street law firm now called Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He learned about finance as assistant to Secretaries of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills and William H. Woodin. In 1933 he came to New York to help run an investment trust (Mayflower Associates Inc.), in 1937 became a director of Connecticut's famed old Electric Boat...
...Senator has always headed the committee. The first chairman, in the Republican 80th Congress, was Iowa's steady, hard-working Bourke B. Hickenlooper. In the Democratic 81st, Connecticut's yeasty Brien McMahon took over, to serve until he died last July. House members insist that there was an "understanding" that the chairmanship would alternate between the Senate and the House. (They let McMahon serve out of turn because he had sponsored the act establishing the committee.) Senate members don't seem to recall any such understanding...
...narrow" citizens are "boors when sober [and] downright dangerous when drunk." If Texas women "are pretty, they're Mexicans. If they look like horses, they're Texans . . ." Texas cowboys can't even ride horses; on the last U.S. equestrian Olympic team, the "members came from Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...