Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From the old Ojibway scholar-Ernest Hemingway," wrote the author himself, inscribing a first-edition copy of The Torrents of Spring to Dr. Don Carlos Guffey, the obstetrician who twice officiated as Hemingway became a Papa. In one of two copies of The Sun Also Rises (1926), Hemingway noted for Dr. Guffey that "the first draft of this book was commenced on my birthday-July 21 in Madrid and it was finished September 6 of the same year-in Paris," and, in the other, that the novel is a "little treatise on promiscuity including a Few Jokes and much valuable...
American Spelling Book fed him huge doses of phonics, and with their high-toned tales about the perils of sin, Mc-Guffey's Readers did the same. But by the middle of the last century, the educators had already begun to revolt...
...West Virginia legislature; of cancer; in Bethesda. Md. Elected to the Senate when he was 29 as a New Deal Democrat, Holt waited six months until he reached the required age of 30 before taking his seat, quickly alienated his coal-miner supporters by filibustering to death the Guffey-Vinson coal bill, was characterized by the United Mine Workers as "the dirtiest traitor of all." Defeated in the 1940 primary, he retired temporarily from politics, turned Republican in 1950, got the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination but lost the election...
Aren't Women Persons? They argued that the whole body of English common law tended to relegate women to the class of chattel. As the redoubtable Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller, sister of ex-Senator Joe Guffey, had pointed out during earlier Senate committee hearings: "We women want to be persons now because we are still not persons in the Constitution...