Word: doodler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes only as far as Cincinnati, but there he is at last free to foliate as he pleases-and peeping through the foliage is a ripe young secretary. But the most surprising development of this renaissance is artistic. A lifelong doodler, the AWOL diplomat tries a little weekend sketching and (here we Gauguin!) is startled to find that he is an artist of astonishing power-a Rubens, perhaps, with a touch of Renoir. Within a year he is in Paris, painting his broad-hipped housemaid by day, panting for her by night. But the late-blooming bohemian's idyl...
...South's unflagging battle against civil-rights legislation, House Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith has been serving as a quietly effective Dixie doodler. Virginian Smith bottled civil rights in committee for two months until a majority forced it out. When the measure reached the House floor last week, "Judge" Smith took command of Southerners marshaling to defeat or disembowel it. The bill's backers steeled themselves for diatribe and delay, quorum calls and quixotic demands. But with gaunt, mild-looking Howard Smith calling the shots, they were never more wrong...
...many an arithmetical doodler snapped his pencil point with the news that President Eisenhower, on his first campaign swing through the country, had drawn crowds in Iowa-and particularly in Des Moines-that had never been equaled either in numbers or enthusiasm. Obviously the pundits had to find room for a special Eisenhower symbol. The 1956 election was not just an equation involving Republicans and Democrats. It was more a case of Ike on one side and all the Democrats on the other-with Ike, a very well-known quantity, ready to campaign to the nth power...
...habitual doodler who doodled wolves, girls, castles and the word "Lenin" on paper pads during conferences and interviews, Stalin gave the impression of impassive calm. But a Tito aide once saw him angry: "He trembled with rage, he shouted, his features distorted, he sharply motioned with his hand and poured invective into the face of his secretary who was trembling and paling as if struck by heart failure." Wrote Biographer Boris Souvarine: "This repulsive character . . . cunning, crafty, treacherous but also brutal, violent, implacable ..." Said Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, who met Stalin at the Teheran conference: "Most of us, before...
...Doodler. One species of physician is often unaware of the effect that his anxiety may have upon the patient: "If you are anxiously beating out an SOS with your fingers on the desk, or doodling with agitation while verbally reassuring a hypertensive patient . . . the patient will understand what you are doing and reject what you are saying...