Word: fishbait
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other businessmen talked of renting a boat for a weekend "fishing trip with the boys," stocking the boat with girls as well as fishbait. By Monday morning, said one fishing host of his client, "you know he'll do anything to help...
Striding three paces forward from the swinging central doors of the House of Representatives chamber, Doorkeeper William M. ("Fishbait") Miller sucked breath and bellowed the call that has been his prerogative for eight congressional sessions. Cried Mississippian Miller: "Mistuh Speakuh, the President of the United States!" A packed chamber's applause pealed out as Dwight Eisenhower, following Doorkeeper Miller and followed himself by an escort of four Senators and two Representatives, made his smiling way down the aisle to the House well...
...precisely 12:31 one day last week, William Moseley ("Fishbait") Miller, Doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives, rose and raised a stentor's voice: "Mistuh Speakuh: the President of the United States." To the standing applause of a joint session of the U.S. Congress, a smiling Dwight Eisenhower (carefully shirted in television blue) strode to the rostrum. He was beginning two difficult years of business with a Congress organized by an opposition party that had one main...