Word: hasn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spend. Since he began his second full term less than two months ago, there has been scarcely a day when 60-year-old Earl Long hasn't been at it. He has vilified the mildest of opponents, ruthlessly axed holdover appointees from other administrations, defied legislative rules and traditions by roaming the floors of both houses at will. Long's goals, as many a despondent Louisianian sees them: 1) a tax-and-spend policy to dwarf the fondest dreams of the late Brother Huey, even at the risk of bankrupting the state, and 2) a campaign to tighten...
...Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was "poor stuff." Said Mencken of Hemingway: "The man can't write. Just a bad boy, who's probably afraid of the dark." As for Faulkner, "there is no more sense in him than in the wop boob, Dante . . . the man hasn't the slightest idea of sentence structure or paragraphing." Angoff drops an amusing footnote to the famed "Hatrack" episode in which Mencken got himself arrested in Boston for peddling an issue of the Mercury, banned for its story, by Herbert Asbury, of a southeast Missouri prostitute. Mencken...
...second day produced another assured column from Krauss. Reported Mrs. Dion: "Susan's hair hasn't been combed since Monday...
...that make a great President than of those which enable a man to be elected." Chafee also has high regard for Eisenhower, but thinks that the President should, like himself, retire. "The job requires a man's full energy to do great things," reflects Chafee, "and the President just hasn't got that much energy left...
...Soldiers Field hasn't been so soggy in many springs as it is this year," Carroll F. Getchell, of 60 Boylston St., laments. "All the attention is on how much varsity sports suffer when the ground is wet, but the present condition is worse for the University's more populated intramural program," he points...