Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman laughed again. That's not hard to do, he said, because when he was about 16 or 20 years old, he used to go to every vaudeville show that ever came to Kansas City. He had seen the Four Cohans and Eva Tanguay, he remembered. And he used to be an usher every Saturday afternoon at the Grand and see the shows free. "Where was the Grand?" a Kansas City Star reporter asked. Down at Seventh and Walnut, said Truman. "Gosh," said the reporter, "we'll have to put up a plaque there tomorrow...
...Officials." The rest of the time he was well received. At a luncheon on his 60th birthday, the Republicans of Parkman sang "Happy Birthday, dear Bob." At Lakewood's Westlake Hotel at a gathering of 400 clubwomen, a lady soloist sang Thank God for a Garden, coming down hard on the last line: "Thank God for you." She meant the Senator, she explained...
...nine states, from Indiana to New Mexico. But he had more than that to recommend him. Always more a teacher than a practicing lawyer, he had made one reputation as a scholarly law-school dean before he came to Washington, made another on the bench there as an able, hard-working judge. So on Feb. 15, 1943, hearty, dignified Wiley Rutledge became Franklin Roosevelt's eighth and final appointee to the Supreme Court...
...Frankie wasn't as hard as he talked...
Cartoonist Abner Dean's publishers claim that psychiatrists try out his drawings on their patients. The average beholder who looks at And on the Eighth Day hard and long enough is apt to wonder whether it is he or the artist who is in need of a session on the confessional couch. Dean, a successful commercial artist and nephew of revolutionary Sculptor Jacob Epstein, has some of the humor of a Thurber or a Steig: but he is not trying to be funny. This is his third book of drawings (the others: It's a Long...