Word: dooley
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...Night They Burned the Mountain, Dooley...
Finley Peter Dunne, whose Mr. Dooley is the alltime choice of many political connoisseurs, swaddled his man in an Irish dialect that magically permitted him to speak his mind. He once called John D. Rockefeller "a kind iv society f'r th' prevention iv croolty to money," and had a skill at reworking slogans that has turned up again in Sahl. "Hands acrost th' sea and into somewan's pocket," said Dooley. Sahl rallied for Ike with the line: "He kept us out of Mars...
...could be biting, but most of the time he was jovially rustic where Sahl is urban and hip. Rogers was lovable, and even his fans do not claim that quality for Sahl. But in his own way, Sahl has taken his place on the center line of the Ward-Dooley-Rogers tradition. The Depression and war years produced only minor political satire. Among comedians, Bob Hope -who still typifies the older, machine-tooled and essentially safe topical joke-might crack about Eleanor Roosevelt's never staying home; Fred Allen liked to say that Tom Dewey seemed to be eating...
...Born Free, Adamson ( 1 ) 3. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (3) 4. I Kid You Not, Paar (4) 5. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (6) 6. How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, Darvas 7. Mr. Citizen, Truman (5) 8. The Night They Burned the Mountain, Dooley (7) 9. The Conscience of a Conservative, Gold water (9) 10. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson...
...Styron NONFICTION 1. Born Free, Adamson (1) 2. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (2) 3. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (3) 4. I Kid You Not, Parr (4) 5. Mr. Citizen, Truman (9) 6. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (5) 7. The Night They Burned the Mountain, Dooley (7) 8 The Good Years, Lord 9. The Conscience of a Conservative, Goldwater (6) 10. The Enemy Within, Kennedy...