Word: hobson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polls the voters had a Hobson's choice. Against Brooks stood only pudgy, uninspiring State Treasurer Warren Wright, who was not only undistinguished but indistinguishable in the Illinois political ruck. Brooks had the machine support of Illinois regulars, and the daily gushing support of the Tribune, which had tried to make him seem a hero second only to General MacArthur...
...most valuable which the English, despite their paper shortage, had the civilized perspicacity to print-was E. M. Butler's Rainer Maria Rilke ($4.50), the first full-length study of a great German poet. Others were Peter Quennell's arch Byron in Italy ($3.50) and Arthur Hobson Quinn's heavy, thorough Edgar Allan Poe ($5). Garrett Mattingly's Catherine of Aragon ($3.50) and Kenneth Allott's smart Jules Verne...
...came to Major Griffin after Protestant Episcopal Bishop Henry Wise Hobson, once a major of artillery, now national chairman of Fight for Freedom, Inc., got wind of what the Second Army's publicity officer had handed out to troops...
...Laura Z. Hobson wrote A Dog of His Own in 45 minutes. It is a whimsical, ingratiating tale of a five-year-old dog lover named Mikey, who was very happy with one dog and mistakenly thought he would get happier and happier as, one by one, his foolish aunt gave him nine more...
When Pundit Dorothy Thompson read this, she found it "full of social significance." Wrote she to Author Hobson: "It preaches the only important moral, social and economic lesson, namely: that too much of a good thing is too much. Only think how well off Mr. Hitler would have been if he had been satisfied with a dachshund and a Pomeranian, but no, he also had to have a Scotty and a great Dane, and I give you my word, if we are not careful, he is going to go after a Mexican hairless. And with them all on the lead...