Word: honeying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Third Day. The President awakened at 7:40 a.m., got up, showered, shaved himself, breakfasted on half a grapefruit, creamed chipped beef, toast and honey and Sanka. Then he set about bouncing back with a vigor that astonished his staff. In pajamas, beige dressing gown and slippers, he padded about the second floor of the White House, later got dressed in slacks and sweater, settled down to work at his easel on a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II's daughter, Princess Anne. He sought and got his doctor's permission to receive a few official visitors-Nixon, Adams...
...Honey Fitz and Pat Kennedy often opposed each other politically, but they formed a family coalition with the marriage of red-haired young Joe Kennedy and brunette Rose Fitzgerald, who spoke French and German and "understood Harvard." Harvardman Joe, who had just taken over as president of East Boston's Columbia Trust Co. (Pat Kennedy held substantial stock in the bank, which did not hurt Joe's getting the job), promptly announced that he would make a million dollars with the arrival of each new child...
Inept at the Switch. Jack Kennedy, politician, was-and is-a long way from the likes of Pat Kennedy and Honey Fitz, a fact still resented by some of Boston's old Irish types. Says one: "Tell me, who'd he ever get a job for? When did he ever attend a wake? When did he ever get out and rustle food for a poor starving family? Or raise the money for an undertaker?" In fact, Kennedy is even inept at the "Irish Switch," a maneuver that consists of vigorously shaking one person's hand while talking...
Kennedy made up for such handicaps by traipsing tirelessly through the slums of the Eleventh District shaving in back alleys before speaking appearances ("The Kennedy campaign trail," says a friend, "was littered with used razor blades"). And on the night of June 18, 1946, old Honey Fitz climbed onto a table to sing Sweet Adeline in celebration of his grandson's primary victory over eight other Democrats. The general election was a mere formality: Republicans do not get elected in the Eleventh District...
...breeze with Daughter Ethel Barrymore Colt and some diamond luminaries who later took part in the TV salute-Los Angeles Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella, NBC Sport Consultant Leo ("The Lip" ) Durocher, The New York Yankees' crusty Manager Casey Stengel, and the World Champion Milwaukee Braves' Manager Fred Honey...