Word: huey
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...Flung Huey, the sage, goes south for the day and, mint julep in hand, predicts a hard fought win for the underdog Tulane tornado over Denny Myers' revamped B. C. sugarbowlers...
Ickes still refers to himself as an ex-newspaperman, maintains stoutly that his literary style is a product of his years as a reporter. This style, studied closely, resolves itself into a trick of calling names more luridly than anyone else. He once said that the late Huey Long had "halitosis of the intellect"; that General Hugh Johnson had "mental saddle sores"; that when Racket-Buster Thomas E. Dewey announced his Presidential candidacy he "tossed his diapers into the ring...
...reminded of this story when I read your account of Senator Barkley's speech at the unveiling of Huey Long's statue [TIME...
Lady From Louisiana (Republic) suggests that the land of the bayous was ripe for plucking long before the advent of Kingfish Huey Long. It also records the triumph of a 19th-Century Thomas E. Dewey (John Wayne) over one of Dewey's favorite rackets-the lottery...
...Huey Long's children pulled the rope; the flag fell away. In imperishable bronze, one arm upraised, snub features fixed in the grimace of debate, taller by six inches than the Great Commoner beside him, Huey Long took his place among the graven images of the nation...