Word: gauntness
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...great walnut doors of the U.S. House of Representatives swung wide, and Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller announced in his drawlingest Mississippi delivery the arrival of a distinguished member. Through the door came a tall, gaunt man with a shock of white hair, rimless glasses and a thin-lipped smile. The House rose in welcome, and Massachusetts' Representative John William McCormack made his way slowly down the center aisle. His peers had just elected him the 45th Speaker of the House...
...quietly explains the manner of the betrayal. The trouble with the novel is not that its subject is unpromising; Author Spark's fans are confident of her ability to discover astonishing falsities in unlikely places. The language stings as elegantly as ever, and when the author writes that gaunt Scottish schoolmistresses say good morning "with predestination in their smiles," nothing need be added to the description. The flaw is a thinness of texture; no single outline is untrue, but details are indefinite, as in a photographic positive taken too soon from the developer...
...will end when an overspirited employee tells off the boss-but not before someone has kissed the stenographer. In Yellow Springs, Ohio (pop. 4,167), the mayor and an aide will distribute 10 lbs. of flour and sugar each to every "worthy widow" in honor of ex-Slave Wheeling Gaunt, who left a small trust for that purpose 65 years...
Road to Success. Behind Cummins' remarkable success is an equally remarkable man: Chairman Joseph Irwin Miller, 52, A tall, gaunt, Christian intellectual. Miller is the only layman ever to rise to the presidency of the National Council of Churches, and he runs his company in accordance with his belief that "being greedy and selfish is not the way to be happy and successful...
...Rayburn's chief lieutenant, gaunt John McCormack, 69, has made little secret of his hope that some day he will follow Mr. Sam to the speakership. Whether the White House shares the same hope is a matter for debate. An up-from-poverty Bostonian, McCormack for years ran the Democratic Party in Massachusetts as his private constituency until, in 1956, rising young Senator John Kennedy smoothly took over. Swallowing that defeat, McCormack has publicly avowed his support for Kennedy ever since-but there are Democrats who think that the anger of "The Archbishop" (Roman Catholic McCormack's cloakroom...