Word: girth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon-based songwriter would have his troubles; an obvious rhyme for earth is girth, and in the radiance of earthlight, a moon-maiden's face would shine bluish green. But if science fiction is somewhat short on romance, it does offer today's readers the kind of adventurous, he-man escape from gravity once found in turn-of-the-century western yarns-a commodity not to be dismissed in this day of beatniks and Angry Young...
...William Howard Toft. Daughter Helen Taft Manning, 67, told her favorite yarn about her portly (300 Ibs.) father and his much-lampooned girth. When Taft was Civil Governor of the Philippines and recuperating from an illness, he reassured Secretary of War Elihu Root of his recovery by cabling Root that he had just ridden 50 miles on horseback. Crackled back Root: "How is the horse...
...president of Washington's Warehouse Employees' Local 730 after its treasury was looted by its officers in 1952, Baker joined up with Jimmy Hoffa, went to work in St. Louis for Hoffa Lieutenant Harold Gibbons. Baker's specialty: "belly bumping," i.e., using his gross girth to direct or obstruct picket line traffic...
Although he shares O'Malley's girth, Stoneham shows none of O'Malley's guile. He wanted to move, and he said so. He and Mayor Christopher came to terms quickly. Despite the almost certain knowledge that it was settling for a second-rate club, San Francisco welcomed its Giants...
...Governor of Massachusetts (1949-53), who keynoted the 1952 Democratic convention, orated on and on against Republican "dinosaurs of political thought" while his suit became swampy with perspiration and his voice faded away to sandpaper hoarseness; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Sometimes known as the man of "girth and grins," the roly-politician was one of the canniest who ever sat on Beacon Hill, built up a formidable personal machine that almost withstood the Eisenhower landslide of 1952, when Republican Christian Herter won the Massachusetts governorship...