Word: garfields
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...technology. Jefferson had two flush toilets; Andrew Jackson got running water and the first shower; Martin Van Buren brought in central heating; and Polk did away with candles and oil and lighted his chandeliers with gas. An early form of air conditioning was improvised for the dying James A. Garfield in the summer of 1881. Rutherford B. Hayes introduced the telephone, and Benjamin Harrison had the White House rigged for electricity, though he would not touch the switches...
...final panelist was political cartoonist Peter Kuper, who said he now exists in a self-proclaimed "netherworld between politics and Garfield...
...ailing brother Archie would be cheered. All along the way an exuberant country of inventors made sure that early on the White House had running water, indoor plumbing, electric lights, central heating, telephones--even some crude air conditioning way back in 1881 to soothe the dying President James Garfield. Teddy Roosevelt, for all his progressive nature, was too fond of horses to adopt the automobile, though he was the first President to fly in an airplane. Right up to the end of his term in 1907, he insisted on horse-drawn carriages ("Roosevelts are horse people"), although the streets...
...seven-year-old girl, pulling her mother by the hand, passed judgment on each dress: "I'd wear that one, not that one, that one, that one...." Personally, I gave Pat Nixon's gown the highest marks: A clean, simple cream-colored satin number with an empire waist. Lucretia Garfield winds up on my worst-dressed list with her multi-tiered lilac satin and lace number. Sorry, Lucretia...
...says he never took bribes as Chancellor 26. Silly Putty unit 27. Cry out loud 28. House Dems walked out over the __ prescription-drug issue 30. Inkster, who repeated as LPGA champion 33. Oysters' homes 37. Cinders of old comics 39. Mork's sign-off, when doubled 41. James __ Garfield 43. Slaughter in baseball 45. __ White (IBM's new supercomputer) 46. Kind of graft 47. Kit Carson's home 48. __-Locka, Fla. 49. Masters and Johnson subject 51. Medical specialty (abbr.) 52. Royal-jelly maker...