Word: joes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reading the article on the sleepy people, I remembered Joe, the fat boy,* in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens. I always thought it a poor invention by the writer, but now I see that it is a classic description of narcolepsy...
...most unseemly and undignified for the Vice President of the U.S. to engage in a public brawl with that expert in that field, Mr. Khrushchev, and worse still that he came off second best. After all, he should have remembered the technique of the late Joe McCarthy...
...wives. At twelve, Liston had an argument with his father, ran away to live with his mother in St. Louis. He later landed in jail after helping to hold up a restaurant. There Liston learned to read, met a chaplain who interested him in boxing. Liston studied Joe Louis' My Life Story by the hour, soon was prison champion, emerged to win the intercity Golden Gloves heavyweight championship...
...Senator Joe McCarthy, by Richard Rovere. A well-balanced account of the man whom Reporter Rovere regards as the Dead End kid of U.S. politics...
...Senator Joe McCarthy, Rovere...