Word: hydrophobia
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...enjoying his paneled and well-equipped office (TV, hifi, radio, air conditioning), he is apt to be stomping about outside, shooting at pigeons with a shotgun, or scaring away stray dogs with a BB gun ("I don't see anything wrong with that. Some have hydrophobia"). One apocryphal story has it that on one pigeon shoot he accidentally pinked a member of the Teachers College Board of Illinois...
...plays no golf or other sports; in fact, he does not need to. He gets his exercise in his office, where he can't sit still. "It gives me hydrophobia," he says. While dictating, talking, or just thinking, Jacobsen paces swiftly back & forth for hours on end, moving so fast that visitors have to swivel their heads to keep him in view -like watching the ball in a tennis match. When Jacobsen gets really interested in conversation, he paces in a big, swooping circle, walking right around visitors. They usually stop trying to swivel around with him, just...
...Telegram had lost its independence and that McCullagh was a front man "for outside influence and ownership." McCullagh snapped that the Telegram deal was his own. "That fellow Hindmarsh [Harry Comfort Hindmarsh, Star president]," he roared, ". . . is so ugly that if he ever bit himself he'd get hydrophobia...
...Hydrophobia, He Says. The Journal broke its story four days before the state Supreme Court began its hearings on the electoral mess. Hummon squawked loudly: "The Journal has running hydrophobia." His weekly paper, the Statesman ("The People: Editor; Herman Talmadge: Associate Editor"), joined in: "Smear tactics ... to coerce and intimidate the Supreme Court." Hundreds of congratulatory letters poured in to the Journal (owned by the Democrats' 1920 presidential candidate, James M. Cox). The rival Constitution, which fought Gene Talmadge in the last election, was strangely noncommittal about the Journal's expose of Hummon. Editor Ralph McGill (whom capitol...
...admirer of left-wing ideology, Dr. Scott once defined the difference between Socialism and Communism as "the difference between an ordinary dog bite and hydrophobia." Nor did he have any more use for other brands of collectivism. Returning from Europe on a German ship soon after Hitler came to power, he was summoned to a ceremony at which the new swastika emblem was raised in place of the republican flag. When an officer asked him to salute, he replied: "I would as soon salute that diagram as the first proposition of Euclid...