Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worst Beating. The Republican National Committee made a mighty effort for Candidate Longstreth. Among first string Republicans who said a good word for the candidate: President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey (who spoke at a $100-a-plate Philadelphia G.O.P. dinner), National Chairman Leonard Hall, Pennsylvania's U.S. Senators Edward Martin and James Duff, and Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck...
...despite this precocious interest in politics, when Jim went off to Humphrey High School, ten miles from the farm, he decided that he would not be a politician but would keep tabs on politicians as a newsman. He edited the high school news in the Humphrey Democrat and, later, was managing editor of the Creightonian at Creighton University...
Nobody has been able to explain Eddie's sudden success beyond the fact that he somehow sounds much better in French than in English. French women regard him as a sort of combination Humphrey Bogart and Bing Crosby. Some of the girls dream that he will drag them by the hair to his champagne-stocked cave, while others like to weep at his middleaged, father-daughter sentiments. Most of his audiences, as a French magazine puts it, simply like to think of him as the fellow who dots the "i" in the verb aimer...
...Desperate Hours. A man's home is his prison in the thriller-diller of the season: with Fredric March, Humphrey Bogart (TIME...
...Desperate Hours. A man's home is his prison in the thriller-diller of the season; with Fredric March, Humphrey Bogart (TIME...