Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along with such non-Midwesterners as New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner and Oregon's Wayne Morse. The smiling face of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson beamed from posters in the hotel corridors, with arrows underneath pointing to the suite where a hospitable supply of Jack Daniel's whiskey flowed. Moreover, sagacious House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 78, was on hand to exploit every advantage for Fellow Texan Johnson...
...Daniel Catton Rich, director of Massachusetts' Worcester Art Museum: "Most of the attacks on museum cleaning are made by ignorant people who don't know what they're talking about. In the last ten years there has been much more careful restoration than at any time in the history of the world...
Behind him, he left Larry O'Brien and Ralph Dungan, two of the ablest members of his Washington staff, to work on the unionists. A few blocks away, in a single room with bath at the Daniel Boone Hotel, Humphrey's lone advance man, Rein Vander Zee, was busily plotting strategy. From all the signs, West Virginia, scene of classic feuds and four major battles of the Civil War, is about to become a dark and bloody ground once more...
Cousteau has been traveling ever since. His father, Daniel P. Cousteau, is a witty, urbane lawyer whose job consisted in being factotum and traveling companion to a pair of itinerant U.S. millionaires. The first was James Hazen Hyde, high-living son of the founder of Equitable Life Assurance Society. Back in 1905, as an Equitable vice president, Hyde had given a $200,000 costume party in Manhattan that put the whole insurance business under outraged public scrutiny, brought on an investigation by the New York State legislature. In anger, Hyde sold his stock, huffed off to self-exile in Europe...
...book's hero is Daniel Tiamat, an Irish-American newspaperman (his name is that of a doomed deity, the mother of the gods in Babylonian mythology). The book tells how Tiamat arrives at young manhood in full vigor of mind and body, with a crapshooter's wrist, moral faculties unblunted by use, and a more than Hearstian knowledge of what makes news paper readers salivate. By middle age he is reduced to physical paralysis and the ignominy of writing an agony column un der the pseudonym of Miss Friendship (clearly a fictional cousin of Nathanael West...