Word: haile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan meeting of liquor dealers, Massachusetts' boyish (39) Democratic Senator Jack Kennedy rose to help hail Charles Berns, the co-founding "Charlie" of Manhattan's famed "21" restaurant (see BUSINESS) and guest of honor as a benefactor of Massachusetts' decade-old Brandeis University. Getting a glowing introduction, Jack Kennedy seemed startled, then smiled and disclosed some spirits in his ancestral tree: "My grandfather had a saloon and my father was in the liquor business, and I don't usually get such a warm reception from people to whom my father sold something...
...heard it proclaimed that "when Bill Knowland takes a stand, he stands as if his feet were in concrete." New Hampshire's Styles Bridges was sobered by an obvious thought: "Let us not talk about Bill as though he were no longer our colleague. Instead let us hail the fact that for two more years his matchless leadership will be found in the No. 1 seat on the right-hand side of the aisle." In the No. i seat, the hero of the hour sat stoically staring ahead, grinned occasionally, until the last of 29 colleagues had hurled...
...publicly announced that my book, The Outsider, was a fraud. What I actually said was that The Outsider is a fraud as a work of philosophy. When someone has written a book which expresses an intensely personal viewpoint, he is bound to feel a fraud when people hail it as "representing the younger generation, etc." Nevertheless, The Outsider was written with deadly serious intent...
...working for peace." Elegant, unruffled, a good party man, priding himself on the quiet adjustment and the deft compromise, Eden had built a reputation as a diplomatic technician par excellence. But last week the diplomatic technician had plunged recklessly for force, the popular Prime Minister was under a shattering hail of critical fire unequaled in violence since the time of Neville Chamberlain...
...little drunkard who "taught one little girl to say the Lord's Prayer backwards," tweaked William Wordsworth's nose and addressed him as, "You rascally old Lake poet!" Some see him as an overelaborate, rather cute stylist; others brush aside what they feel are merely trappings and hail Lamb as one of the kindest, most generous men that ever lived. Editor Matthews manages to include all these Lambs in his selection and to write what is probably the truest, briefest epitaph: "His friends loved him: his friends still...