Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boys. Felix Frankfurter's notes recommending young lawyers-over a scrawled "FF"-fluttered into Washington long before the New Deal (Corcoran, for instance, was a gift to Hoover's RFC). The fact that 125 "happy hot dogs" are in Washington today spurred General Hugh Johnson to call Professor Frankfurter "the most influential single individual...
...Bengals. Both wrestlers are outstandingly fast. Gifford, if any one, holds the edge on his count. He was once responsible for keeping ex-Captain Harkness, last year's National Champion in the 175 pound weight, to a decision when the latter was grappling in the lighter weight. Coach Pat Johnson has dubbed him a "wild...
Swinging into its final workout before its opening match this week, Pat Johnson's octet of fifty percent "green material" will swing into action under Captain Harvey Ross. Ross is one of the few members of last year's team who did not graduate, and he at 120 pounds with Bill Daughaday at 165, another veteran, are expected to bear the brunt of the Crimson scoring...
...General Johnson's mailable "fighting words" [TIME, Dec. 19] have a fine, ringing sound, and are most of them notable on that score, not for their intelligibility...
...usually impelled by politics-met regularly in coffeehouses and taverns. At the Whigs' Kit-Cat Club, Addison and Congreve fellowshipped with statesmen and lords; at the Tories' Scriblerus, Swift and his friends forgathered. Before the 18th Century went out, London swarmed with clubs that, like Dr. Johnson's immortal one, produced great conversation, or like White's, Boodle's and Brooks's, witnessed some of the steepest gambling in history...