Word: hubbardism
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...Mother Hubbard. For years, the Supreme Court has refused to assume jurisdiction for federal courts over state apportionment disputes. In the 1946 case of Colegrove v. Green, Justice Felix Frankfurter (who strongly dissented from the majority ruling last week) held that federal courts "ought not to enter this political thicket." This ruling, wrote Justice Tom Clark in concurring with the majority last week, has "served as a Mother Hubbard to most of the subsequent cases." By its latest decision, the Supreme Court has merely opened the cupboard door. It holds that crazy-quilt systems of legislative apportionment may violate...
...Prentice honed his paragraphs into needles to puncture rival editors. In his hands and others, the paragraph took on the quality of wit and humor that characterize it still. One of the best of the later breed was the Indianapolis' News's late, famed Frank McKinney ("Kin") Hubbard, who, as Abe Martin, turned out paragraphs by the thousands. "I think some folks are foolish." wrote Kin Hubbard. "to pay what it costs to live...
...must congratulate you on your excellent coverage of the current crop of children's books ["The Condemned Playground," Dec. 15]. However, it was the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe who was responsible for the "one-woman population explosion," and not Old Mother Hubbard, whose crimes would more appropriately be brought before the Anti-Cruelty Society...
...Mother Hubbard went to her shoe...
...streets are long and the street song. The birds fly over the days fly along. The birds all new A new day now for boy and girl for man and lady. This poetic pabulum somehow misses the tragic sense of life remembered from, say, Old Mother Hubbard or Three Blind Mice, and is, moreover, unchantable. Furthermore, those writing for today's young would not dream of mentioning a scandalous one-woman population explosion like Mother Hubbard and her substandard housing, and no farmer's wife would be allowed to behave so sadistically toward three handicapped mice...