Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Ways. In Hartford, Conn...
Cursing. "I hope you fall out of the window, you blankety-blank stinky old bitch." This bad wish was expressed by a three-year-old in the wartime nursery school set up by Connecticut's St. Joseph College, in downtown Hartford. The vexed urchin's pretty teacher was not at all shocked: but being a nursery-school teacher, she carefully wrote down every word. In the newly streamlined November Progressive Education, she suggests how to handle such tough-talking cherubs...
...Republican swath cut deep, down to the grass roots. Outstanding and almost sole noncasualty: Cleveland's popular Democratic Mayor Frank J. Lausche. Hartford, Conn. (pop. 166,267) threw out its Democratic mayor after eight years. Plattsburg, N.Y. (pop. 16,351), a tiny Democratic island in the vast upstate New York G.O.P. sea, got its first Republican mayor in 14 years. And the G.O.P. picked up the only two Congressional by-elections, in Pennsylvania and New York...
...overhearing a confidential conversation between Republican and Democratic town committee chairmen back in the vil lage of Gurleyville, in northeastern Connecticut. The leaders of the rival parties had just finished buying 54 votes at $5 a head, and each leader had kept $150 of the cash sent from Hartford headquarters as a "legitimate expense" of getting out the voters...
From his home in Hartford, Conn., Mark Twain promptly wrote the Post a letter...