Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chore Boy. Jake Lomakin began going places in 1939. He had graduated from a Moscow technical school as a "management engineer," had written articles on Marxist economy, and taken a course on how to become a foreign correspondent. In 1939, when he was 35, Jake was sent to New York as a Tass correspondent. Two years later he was made vice consul in New York City, and a year later, consul general in San Francisco...
...First "Colossal." Griffith brought a strange, yet significant, heritage to his work. His father was Colonel Jacob Wark ("Roaring Jake") Griffith, a Confederate cavalry officer given to florid readings of Shakespeare. Like him, young D. W. had a stentorian voice, a tough physical frame, and a character that mixed moral austerity with poetic sentiment. He absorbed the attitude of the post-bellum Southerner to the Nouhern carpetbagger and the problems of the new freed men. When his talents and his viewpoint merged in The Birth of a Nation, a story of the Civil War, the Reconstruction and the first...
...disturbance was not squelched. Directly under the rostrum, Chicago Boss Jake Arvey and Adlai Stevenson, candidate for governor of Illinois, continued to yell at the chair. California's hulking Chairman Jack Shelley, an ex-University of San Francisco football tackle, plunged up the aisle to the platform, roaring for recognition. They all wanted it to be announced that their delegations had voted against Mississippi. On the platform Shelley barked into the ear of Sergeant at Arms Leslie Biffle: "You'd better not cut the mikes on us tomorrow when we start talking on civil rights...
Glib Proposal. Was it Ike's fault, after that, if the pressure continued to build up? The week before the convention, such hardboiled political practitioners as Jake Arvey, Frank Hague and Bill O'Dwyer were willing to gamble that Ike actually would accept when the chips were down. Some of their confidence sprang from desperation and wishful thinking, no doubt. Some of it may have come from Ike's unfamiliarity with the language of politics...
...bookish but unpretentious sort, Allen likes to play parlor word-games, cowboy pool and the snare drum, clock track meets, paint in water colors, study his fellow man on street corners, and trade ideas about everything from college-girl fashions to Jake Kramer's backhand...