Word: helle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hell with modern liberals like Editor Gingrich. Give me the old Esquire...
...home in Marietta, Ohio, back in 1880, Charley Dawes outraged his family by playing the flute in the Democrats' campaign band, while his own father was running for Congress on the Republican ticket (he won). Later, Charles ("Hell 'n' Maria") Dawes became a Republican but stayed a flute player. He used his favorite instrument to relax from a hectic career during which he served seven Presidents-he started as McKinley's Comptroller of the Currency, was Vice President under Coolidge, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's for Hoover, left public life...
...think of heaven as the last outpost of Empire, a mouse and lion husband-and-wife team, a saintly Good-Humored girl, frozen on the outside, soft on the inside. Finally there is the colony's leader, Michael Meade, a tense scoutmaster type who flounders in the hell of his homosexual impulses...
What remains the most unnerving aspect of the whole episode, however, are the assumptions on which all parties to the controversy finally agreed. Harry Truman, for all his hell-raising, also declared himself opposed to "partisan attacks in the field of international relations." And Adlai Stevenson hymned the virtues of bipartisanship. It was felt, on all sides, that beyond certain limits criticism can become "radical," "partisan," and "un-American...
However, he refused to characterize his campaign as a "give 'em hell" type. "I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell," he explained...