Word: helm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assassination of President Garfield. The flag was lowered to half-staff over the town's main store and people talked in hushes as Garfield lay dying. "It was thus," writes Herbert Hoover, "that I learned that some great man was at the helm of our country...
...Dirty Mountains. Between 1915 and 1924, before he stepped to the helm himself, Herbert Hoover composed this first volume of his memoirs. He tells, in a style as stiff and formal as the old Hoover collar and without much seeming premonition of the momentous events still before him, of his first 45 years. They were the years when he was called The Great Engineer and savior of the hungry-and years of travel, discoveries, successes and adventures. Some future biographer may make a better story of it all, but Autobiographer Hoover has a pretty good memory for significant detail...
...London, the old (76 years old) Tory battler gathered with party leaders to plot the strategy they hope will send them back to the country's helm. Winnie was in fine, old-fashioned form. He told Britons that the Conservatives could not promise a quick cure for the country's ills. "The road will be hard and uphill," he said. "After a rake's progress . . . the resulting evils cannot be cured by a parliamentary vote or a stroke of the administrative...
Henry "Bob" Margarita will officially open the 1955 Freshman Football season at 4 p.m. today with a meeting at Dillon Field House. Margarita, beginning his first season at the helm of the Yardlings, has called the conclave "organizational...
Show Boat (M-G-M), launched as a novel by Edna Ferber 25 years ago and as a Broadway musical hit a year later, has steamed across the screen twice before, in 1929 and 1936, but never with such a lavish hand at the helm. M-G-M poured $2,400,000 into the latest voyage, refitted the venerable Cotton Blossom with a bight profusion of crisply Technicolored costumes, sets and vistas. The memorable Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II score (Ol' Man River, Make Believe, Why Do I Love You?) is as dependable a mainstay as ever. But never...