Word: hooverness
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...Conant, Hopkinson dashed off impetuous watercolors for pleasure, but turned a cool New Englander's eye to his investigations of famous men. His first portrait was of the late E. E. Cummings as a baby, and his later works ranged from John D. Rockefeller Jr. to Herbert Hoover and a dour, purse-mouthed Calvin Coolidge, which now hangs in the White House Green Room. Roared Oliver Wendell Holmes, on seeing his own leonine likeness: "That is not I, but perhaps it is just as well that people should think it is. How did the damned little cuss...
...general campaign of November, he "had no stomach for hurling real or fancied charges against the Democrats," and no particular desire to laud Herbert Hoover either. Instead, he praised the memory of Woodrow Wilson, argued for economic reform, and won by 23,000 votes against a Roosevelt landslide...
...former Ambassador to Russia Llewellyn E. Thompson, 58, stricken with a kidney-stone attack while golfing on the Air Force Academy course near Colorado Springs; and former President Herbert Hoover, 88, still recuperating in a Manhattan hospital after the removal two weeks ago of a tumor in his upper colon that doctors announced last week was cancerous, but of a type that seldom recurs or spreads...
...Show." Medikaiser is based on two fundamental principles enunciated back in 1932 by Physician Ray Lyman Wilbur, who was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior. Doctors practice best in groups, Dr. Wilbur argued, because they can instantly call on each other's special skills. Patients, he was convinced, make the best use of doctors' services when they pay for them in advance. But organized medicine bitterly opposed prepaid group practice for years, and much of the antagonism remains...
Back home and full of bounce after a five-week tour of Western Europe was Dwight Eisenhower, 71; bouncing back nicely in a Manhattan hospital after an operation to remove a polypoid lesion from his large intestine was Herbert Hoover, 88; perennially bouncy Harry Truman, 78, was gadding about Manhattan...