Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the fabled blind men of Indostan, two Senators and a Representative last week dropped by SHAPE headquarters near Paris for a chat with General Eisenhower, then failed utterly to agree on what they observed. Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson was convinced that Ike is a Republican: "I didn't ask . . . I've known him a long time. When you know a man well, you don't feel it necessary to ask." North Carolina's Democratic Senator Willis Smith thought the elephant looked more like a Democratic donkey: "I got no impression from General...
...writing was not considered the respectable, sedentary occupation it has become today: in a politician it seemed to suggest a temperament highly mercurial and unstatesmanlike as compared, for instance, with that of Lord Derby, who once refused to discuss the progress of the Crimean War because he "was translating Homer and did not wish to talk politics." Moreover...
Taps. In Decatur, Ill., one of the customers whose water service was discontinued for failure to pay the bill was City Waterworks Superintendent Homer Chastain...
...gathered around him a brilliant, erratic crew of staffers and contributors (Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Edwin Markham, Homer Davenport, et al.), entertained them by dancing jigs in the office, striding through the streets with a cane that whistled, and in more corruptive ways. He was great fun to work for; after a hard day in the newsroom he liked to gather the staff at his big house for lavish parties complete [said horrified gossips] with "abandoned dancing girls." After his father died (1891), someone complained to his mother that Willie was wasting the family fortune away at $1 million...
...Yassuh, Yassuh." The first thing Underwood did, with the help of Deputy Sheriff Homer Sheffield, was to round up 30 Negroes. He finally narrowed his suspects down to four, then herded them into the sheriff's back room. As Sheriff Marshall explained: "I was not there, but about 9 or 10 o'clock, after some heat probably had been applied to try to get the truth, one of them said, 'Yassuh, yassuh, we hit him in the head.'" Underwood got "confessions" signed by three of the prisoners-Jesse James Jr., Amos Redmond and Jesse Davis-admitting...