Word: iscariot
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...much success as my first," he confided to Reporter Jim Goodsell for the Portland Oregonian. "But I won't mind if it creates less of a tempest. It was a little unnerving to be compared, all in one week, with Thomas Wolfe, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Judas Iscariot...
...after he took office he "began to eat too high on the hog." Cried Crump: "Gordon Browning is the kind of a man who would milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence. In the art galleries of Paris there are 27 pictures of Judas Iscariot-none look alike but they all resemble Gordon Browning." In 1938, when Browning had the temerity to run for reelection, he was beaten; he lost Shelby County by 60,000 votes. No Tennessee politician missed the lesson...
...half hours last week, business in the House of Representatives stood still while Polish-American members denounced Russia on the 154th anniversary of the first Polish Constitution. Father Orlemanski drew a share of the abuse. Said Representative John Lesinski of Dearborn, Mich.: "Remembering Judas Iscariot ... I can't help wondering what price the priest is asking to betray the land of his forefathers, his Church and the loyal Americans of Polish descent...
...little RFC shots, visits and letters to Ohio Congressmen. He got out a mimeographed letter, Hickory News, whose main purpose was to give bureaucracy hell. In one issue he referred to RFC 'as "Railroad's Fat Cat" and to ICC (which he also dislikes) as "Iscariot's Carnal Cat's-paw." Every time RFC turned him down on a new application (total to date: six) his mimeograph whirled faster and hotter. Last year he decided to switch to making smelter linings, hired a ceramics engineer to take charge, was sure he could...
...picaresque fill Clyde Brion Davis' recent Sullivan (Farrar & Rinehart; $2.50), though it is less original than his The Anointed (1937). Gilbert Sullivan (whose middle name was not "&") leaves Chicago to wander through Texas, Mexico, California with a rogue who gathers funds for a monument to the "martyred" Judas Iscariot. Sullivan's obsession is that he can float through the air by expanding his body cells. On an eerie Pacific beach he makes a brief will-powered flight, dismisses his talent for political reasons...