Word: curleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police finally allowed two more people to enter, the first being former Boston mayor James Michael Curley who received a standing ovation as he strode into the Hall. The other was a photographer who was able to push his way to the door guard...
...himself was born in the exclusive Fairmount Park district of Philadelphia on July 7, 1918. He came to Boston on a wave of hippo enthusiasm led by the Post, which collected subscriptions for him. On June 24, 1922 he arrived at Franklin Park, was dubbed "Happy" by Mrs. James Curley and then ceremoniously installed in what is now the seal tank of the Zoo. Since that triumphant day, though, his path trailed steadily downward. When he first came, photographers from the newspapers trooped to catch him performing, but he was generally too busy lolling in his tank to pose...
When H. L. Mencken was slaying dragons with his weekly column in the Baltimore Sun, he seldom spoke well of politicians. But this spring H. C. ("Curley") Byrd, football coach and later president of the University of Maryland, who is running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, is using a campaign card with a Mencken quote. The card quotes Mencken as having written of Byrd and his performance at the university that "the thing to do with a man of such talents is not to cuss him for doing his job so well; it is much wiser . . . to give...
Last week the Sun told its readers, "purely in the spirit of exegesis, of textual criticism," what the three dots in Curley's campaign card stood for. It reprinted the full Mencken quote, which ended: "it is much wiser, so long as hanging him is unlawful, to give him a bigger & better...
August: The Democratic Senatorial primary fight in Massachusetts will find James M. Curley calling Paul A. Dever a "leftist." After Dever wins, the two will make up, and decide that the real "leftist" is Senator Leverett Saltonstall...