Word: duff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manuscripts for the publishing house of Chapman & Hall (he was their chief reader, and discovered Hardy), wrote poetry, and lived a reasonably full social life. His friends were critics and editors, poets like Swinburne, naval heroes like Admiral Frederick Maxse, or permanent officials in the Treasury, like Sir Alexander Duff Gordon. "Socially, they were swells; but they were unaffluent and unconventional swells...
...upset the G.O.P. Old Guardsmen's applecart in the Pennsylvania primaries was: 1. Governor Jim Duff...
...state of things that night as Tom Dewey watched his television set, as the perspiring delegates streamed out to Convention Hall to hear the candidates placed in nomination. Just before the session opened, Pennsylvania caucused. The vote: Dewey, 41; Taft, 27; Vandenberg, 1; Stassen, 1; three not voting. Jim Duff, now backing Taft, had lost some of his strength...
Pennsylvania's beefy Jim Duff heaved his bulk through the crowd. In all loyalty, Sigler wanted Duff and the rest of the coalition boys to give their O.K. before he released Michigan. He tried to explain to Duff, who stood stony-faced, fanning himself in the heat. Taft's campaign manager, Clarence Brown, oozed through the crowd. New York's Senator Irving Ives came up to underline the futility of further resistance. "What's the point?" he said amiably. "There's no sense...
...obviously it was all over. Jim Duff moved for the recess, seconded by Bill Knowland. The coalition could pull itself together and, if not stave off defeat, arrange things for an orderly surrender...