Word: humphreyism
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...Muriel Humphrey's decision to wed High School Friend Max Brown (both over 65), Pepper nodded cheerful approval...
...touch. He discovered that he could live handsomely off subsidiary rights. The Thin Man (1934) was his last and most careless novel; it ultimately brought him almost $1 million from film and radio serializations. Hollywood kept recycling his material; the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart and Sidney Greenstreet, was the third film based on that book in ten years. Hammett had always shown a streak of to-hell-with-it independence, and success made him increasingly reckless. He partied and drank too much, offended studio heads and publishers with his disregard for deadlines...
More broadly, London insists that Ulster will remain British as long as a majority of its population-two-thirds Protestant-so desires. Humphrey Atkins, British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, last week created an advisory council composed of 50 Protestants and Roman Catholics to help him govern Ulster. That plan was criticized by Protestants fearful of a "sellout," but former British Labor Prime Minister James Callahan went further. He called for a separate parliament and citizenship for Ulster...
...course. Tom himself had yet to achieve hero status. One could imagine even the young inventor going home to read Tarzan, or, as the times changed, sitting in a theater to watch Sam Spade or Philip Marlow or Humphrey Bogart. Or watching newsreels of Lindbergh. Even Tom would respond to that hierarchy. It may have been an unprecedented spree of hyperbole, but the newspapers called Lindbergh's landing "The biggest news story since the crucifixion of Christ." Well, obviously, it wasn't the biggest story since Roman times--but it might have been the biggest news story. News, after...
...prisoner resettlement in Europe after World War II, wrote an influential 1957 book called Ethics and United States Foreign Policy, and has taught politics at three universities. He was for 37 years a minister of the pacifist Church of the Brethren. He worked as a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey in 1960, and was on the staff of the liberal Brookings Institution for twelve years. Since 1976 Lefever has headed his own conservative think tank in Washington, the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "I'm a confirmed do-gooder," said Lefever at his Senate hearing. "My whole life has been...