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...need to save the world's middle classes from taxes and inflation. At one lunch, he recalled the time he had been "mobbed" in Alabama by a group of friendly blacks. "Isn't that right?" he bellowed at a state trooper stationed by the door. "Yes siree, Guvnor," came the loyal reply. Said an observer: "It was almost as if he were presenting himself as the man uniquely qualified to heal the race wounds in America and even further afield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Turning On the Charm in Europe | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...stories "The Guvnor" by J. A. Macy, is quaint and somewhat touching but not very well sustained; "A Painter of Portraits" by Robert Peabody Bellows, is decidedly clever, and "As it Happened" by H. M. Adams is well written but on a rather worn out theme. For the verses, a sonnet by J. A. Macy has real strength and meaning, "The Summer's Death" by Rupert S. Holland is pleasant to say the least, but "The Cry of the Violets," while good in conception is somewhat clumsy in form. The usual College Kokaks complete the number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 11/3/1897 | See Source »

Second Swell: Think so, old man? Well, I don't mind telling you; it's a little idea of my own. It's one of the guvnor's cuffs. - [Spectator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOSE ENGLISH COLLARS. | 12/20/1882 | See Source »

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