Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida's industrial heap is 66-year-old Edward Ball, who bosses the vast interests of the estate of Alfred Irenee du Pont, and who, as head of the Florida National Bank of Jacksonville, helped many of the new industries to start. Ball, with headquarters in Jacksonville, oversees an empire that ranges from banks (a total of 23 in the Florida National Group) to pulp and paper (St. Joe Paper Co.) and one of the largest privately owned forests...
...brilliant diplomacy, sometimes a singlehanded operation. ("I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.") By 1908. "reactionary"' Democrats were getting the same abuse that Cousin Franklin's young men of a latter day were to heap on the Republicans. Roosevelt was furious that a "floppy souled creature" like Taft threatened to undo his plans for the party: hence his hopeless attempt to win the nomination again in 1912, his "Bull Moose" split with the G.O.P., and the easy victory of Woodrow Wilson and the Democrats...
...devoted 30 years of unflagging vigilance to maintaining order; the doctor, who thinks love is the source of everything but hates an entire family because the father seduced one of his cousins, then told the girl's accusing parents that "a person sitting on an ant-heap is going a bit far when they pretend to know which particular ant has bitten them"; the mayor, an "upholder of correct living," who is too honest to send an innocent man to the guillotine "without some preliminary qualms of conscience"; the honest masses, who virtually cheer a vile crime because they...
...doomed because of its name. But to the villagers it is home, and there is no place like it." If their village was to be condemned for its name, what about some other Durham villages? Such as Cold Knuckles? Or Pity Me? After all, it had taken a heap of living to make No Place like home...
...American, name-dropping Elsa Maxwell threw together a last-minute obituary of that "fabulous countess," the late, madcap Countess Dorothy (Taylor) di Frasso, just to "keep her alive in a funny little way." Although Elsa claims that the countess "never confided in her women friends." friend Maxwell recalled a heap of confidential items on Dorothy's "life and loves." Wrote Elsa: "The two great loves of her life were Gary Cooper and . . . Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel of Murder, Inc. . . . who was liquidated in 1947 by ... his organization." When Gary first drawled howdy over a phone to the countess in Rome...