Word: holt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...propaganda broadcasts, the British press bustled. Front-paged the London Daily Mirror: "Wodehouse . . . lived luxuriously here because Britain laughed with him, but when the laughter was out of his country's heart, Wodehouse was not ready to share her sufferings. ..." Commented the Daily Express' subacid Columnist Paul Holt: "[Wodehouse is] one of the best loved Englishmen alive, [but] he is now using quite a short spoon to sup with the devil. . . . Life in hell is good to live, I guess, if you are Mister Lucifer's personal guest...
Married. Rush Dew Holt, 36, once the baby Senator from West Virginia; and Helen Froelich, 27, Washington schoolteacher; in Gridley...
TIME for April 28 had this: "Engaged. Rush Dew Holt, 35, West Virginia's isolationist junior Senator from 1935 to 1941 (youngest ever elected); and Helen Froelich, 26, teacher at National Park Seminary near Washington...
...record shows that Holt lacked only about six months of being old enough to take the oath as a Senator when he was elected. John H. Eaton, a Senator from Tennessee, was born on June 18, 1790; went to the Senate on Sept. 5, 1818. This shows that he went to the Senate when he was almost two years under the constitutional age of 30. Eaton, husband of Peggy O'Neale, the 'Gorgeous Hussy,' was the youngest man ever to hold a seat in the U.S. Senate...
...TIME was technically correct in calling Rush Holt the youngest man ever "elected" to the Senate, but Reader Wallen's old friend is right in declaring John Henry Eaton-appointed to a seat in 1818-the youngest man ever to hold a Senate seat...