Word: hooverness
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Seven years ago, Bryan Untiedt, 12, became a U. S. celebrity when, by building a fire and giving up his own clothes, he helped save 14 children from freezing in a school bus stranded in a blizzard near Towner, Colo. Afterwards he visited Herbert Hoover at the White House, told the press he hoped to go to West Point...
...American Mercury. Said an American Spectator obituary: "It was most fitting that his last pieces were contributed to an ideologically bankrupt American Mercury and that intellectual hara-kiri found him there." Again, in 1936, when Westbrook Pegler discovered Mr. Mencken (who had stumped against Harding, Coolidge, Smith, Hoover & Roosevelt) ". . . staggering down the street under the unwieldy weight of an enormous Landon banner, a sunflower in his lapel as big as a four-passenger omelette," the New Republic elegized him, saying: ". . . Most of his virtues have declined ... all of his faults have increased...
Example: 0. The President of the U. S. is (1 Coolidge, 2 Roosevelt, 3 Morgan, 4 Garner, 5 Hoover...
...Chairman of the new board to draw up a program for the Republican Party is (1 Glenn Frank, 2 Alfred M. Landon, 3 Herbert Hoover, 4 George D. Aiken, 5 John D. M. Hamilton...
Seven years ago, in Washington's Pan American Union, diplomats blushed almost as red as the Union's macaw, Lorito, when that platitude-hating bird garnished a radio speech by President Herbert Hoover with a raucous Bronx cheer. Recently Lorito's obscene outcries (in Spanish & Portuguese) were silenced forever when he was done to death by David, the Union's gaudy green parrot. Last week, the parrot-murderer, possessed of Lorito's testy spirit, interrupted Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who was giving a speech to the Union (on Davis Cup drawings), with a Bronx...