Word: honey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fritz Kuhn's search for sympathy. Pretty, brown-haired, brown-eyed Mrs. Virginia Overshiner Patterson Stark Seeger Gilbert Kahn Cogswell, "The Georgia Peach," 32 years old, seven times wed, winner of an Atlantic City beauty contest, was one from whom Fritz Kuhn sought sympathy. But next came honey-haired, plump Mrs. Florence Camp, and the climax of Fritz Kuhn's courtroom distress...
Borah's shadow, and the threat it represented, had caused Franklin Roosevelt to change his mood and tactics. Suddenly honey-sweet to the press he had often lambasted, Franklin Roosevelt now turned his full charm on his opponents: solicitously he consulted Republican leaders about a special session; then on the dissident Democrats. Twice he called the Mississippi fox, Pat Harrison, by long-distance telephone. He condoled Georgia's Walter George on an eye-operation (13 months ago he strove to end George's career). He appointed James Elliott Heath (a close crony of Virginia's Carter...
Tension. Kneeling before William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, on October 7, 1914, Joe Kennedy, Harvard '12, took as his wife Rose Fitzgerald, 22-year-old daughter of former Mayor John Francis Fitzgerald-known as "Honey Fitz" because he charmed voters by crooning Sweet Adeline...
Next he took as his aide Honey Fitz's secretary, Edward Moore. Eddie Moore, Irish as a clay pipe, was the first member of the family Kennedy founded, nurse, comforter, friend, stooge, package-bearer, adviser, who played games with Joe and the children, bought neckties and bonds for Joe, opened doors, wrote letters, investigated investments, saw to it Joe wore his rubbers...
...author of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny was a native of Flushing, L. I. The son of one of the first U. S. Negro college graduates (Oberlin '45), Bland himself attended Washington's Howard University. Handsome and honey-voiced, he could not stay away from music. Because white men in blackface hogged the field of U. S. minstrel shows, Bland did not get very far in his U. S. minstrel career. In London, however, where he went as end man with Billy Kersands' Minstrel Troupe, he made a big hit, earned $10,000 a year...