Word: franked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he was running for mayor of Detroit, that Frank Murphy astonished voters with a novel slogan. He was pledged, he said, to "the dew and the dawn and the sunshine of a new era." His enemies scoffed. But the votes of one of the nation's toughest industrial cities swept red-haired Frank Murphy into office...
...Reformer. From boyhood Frank Murphy had had a kind of desperate intentness. He carried with him the Bible given him by his mother and read a chapter from it every day. He played football at the University of Michigan until a 220-Ib. center fell on his 135-lb. frame and broke three ribs. He studied law, served as a captain of infantry in World War I, and returned home to become an assistant U.S. attorney (in which job he convicted, among others, a young bootlegger named Sherman Billingsley, now owner of Manhattan's posh Stork Club...
...Frank Murphy was mayor of Detroit during the depression, when some 50,000 Detroit families were virtually pauperized. He opened closed auto plants as dormitories, handed out almost $30 million in relief, saving enough on the operating costs of his administration to pay for the program...
...like the shrewd-eyed, poker-straight Doge Leonardo Loredano, resplendent in gold brocade and carved buttons, registered the pride and self-possession of the Renaissance itself. The work of Bellini's last years, in such paintings as the Toilet of Venus and Feast of the Gods, anticipated the frank delight in the human form which filled the canvasses of his two greatest pupils, Giorgione and Titian...
...Frank Woolley of Kent, another of the game's immortals, Cardus writes: "His cricket is compounded of soft airs and fresh flavors. The bloom of the year is on it [and] the very brevity of summer is in it ... Woolley, so the statisticians tell us, often plays a long innings. But time's a cheat . . . The brevity in Woolley's batting is a thing of pulse and spirit, not to be checked by clocks, but only to be apprehended by imagination. He is always about to lose his wicket; his runs are thin-spun ... An innings...