Word: crumpeted
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...crusty roll, whizzing like a meteor out of the unknown, shot past the Crumpet . . . and shattered itself against the wall. Noting that his guest had risen some eighteen inches into the air, the Crumpet begged him not to give the thing another thought. 'Just someone being civil,' he explained...
...better campaigner than either Stewart or Mitchell, Kefauver won large audiences all over the state. Labor supported him for his vote against the Taft-Hartley bill; business and professional men liked his courageous stand against Crump. When the votes were in, Kefauver topped Tom Stewart by 34,000 votes; Crumpet John Mitchell ran a dismal third. Shelby County, which used to roll up 60,000 votes for a Crump candidate, gave him only...
...Hull, who left the Senate in 1933 to become Secretary of State, was the last elected Tennessee Senator who did not owe his seat to Boss Crump. For one year (1937-38), George Berry, an anti-Crump appointee, served in the Senate, was beaten in the following primary. Stalest Crumpet of all: 77-year-old Kenneth McKellar, a Senator for 31 years...
Kefauver was drawing more than crowds. For the first time in many a campaign, an anti-Crumpet had the open backing of many business and professional men. The politicians now thought that he had a fighting chance to win the primary on Aug. 5. Win or lose, they agreed that he was the first man in a long time who had given Ed Crump a good scare...
Tennessee's Governor, an ex-livestock auctioneer named Jim McCord, is a Crumpet; so is U.S. Senator Tom Stewart. Sick old spoilsman Senator Kenneth McKellar is beholden to Mister Crump. West Tennessee's Congressmen are his to command. He sways the state legislature. And in Memphis and Shelby County, politicians move like automatons at his bidding-running daily to his office for instructions...