Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scalping others, bellowed as loudly as any victim of his own snickersnee. To Courier-Journal Publisher Mark Ethridge he fired off a testy, 2,000-word complaint about Day's aggressive and "unreasonable" attitude. Pearson even telephoned one of Reporter Day's former employers, Publisher James M. Cox of the Dayton, Ohio News, to check up on Day, triumphantly informed the Courier-Journal that Cox thought Day an "egotistical ass." As for Day's findings, Pearson brushed off the whole thing as a "how-many-angels-can-stand-on-the-point-of-a-needle argument...
...victory not so much for either party as for democracy. Grumbled Goober Cox: "The trouble was that there were too many featherlegs on hand today...
Leaving his seat on the Speaker's dais, Texas' Sam Rayburn stepped down on the floor for one of his infrequent speeches. "Who won the election in 1948 anyhow?" he demanded. Actually, shrewd Sam Rayburn was in a bit of a spot himself. If Goober Cox failed, the FEPC bill might be called up, which wouldn't help Sam Rayburn in his Texas constituency. Under the present rules, any committee chairman can bring his bill to the floor after the Rules Committee has sat on it for 21 days...
...groups on both sides were working hard, stirring up constituents to wire or telephone their Congressmen. When the voting came, the Republican leadership stuck solidly by their Dixiecrat allies. But 64 rank & file Republicans deserted their leaders to join a solid front of Northern Democrats in smashing the great Cox rebellion by a decisive vote...
...spoofs about radio deserve a mild hand. Wally Cox, a young monologuist who writes his own stuff, deserves a very loud cheer. By means of a quiet Will-Rogersish manner and a sharp Ring-Lardnerish pen, he creates a couple of monstrously matter-of-fact characters that are both hilarious and appalling...