Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked him to come again. Benjamin Franklin, then in London, took him to the court of George III, introduced him to his literary friends, and lent him money. Rush dined with Artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, Novelist Oliver Goldsmith ("He spoke with the Irish accent"), and crotchety Literary Czar Samuel Johnson, who reports Dr. Rush was rude to Goldsmith. Rush even got himself invited as a dinner guest of famed Political Prisoner John Wilkes in the King's Bench prison. Wilkes had 15 guests in his cell that day, and Rush noted that he had an extra room...
Yalies held a small but vigorous rally in front of Howard Johnson's Square restaurant at 9 p.m., which lasted through three renditions of "Bulldog, Bulldog," and a half a dozen cheers
Those who won Harvard letters were: Batchelder, Drake, Scully, Mudd, Seamans, Louria, Miller, Carswell, Saul, Heisler, Spivak, Gilgert, Weiss, Estin, Chen, Potter, Dawson, Johnson, Wallace, Wolf, Bell, Schoch, Ragle, and Harshman...
Finally launching his long-deferred North American tour (the U.S. refused him a visa until he got a non-subversive sponsor), the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, had one more little run-in with authority (Canadian) at the Montreal airport. But it was only a "technical detail," about passport stamps, soon cleared up. His speech in Windsor, Ont. was briefly interrupted when a heckler loudly disagreed with the Dean's contention that free elections are held in Russia "all the time...
...deny his bias in favor of Roosevelt and Hopkins, yet it is a bias frequently dissolved by candor. There is enough in these pages to explain why Hopkins was feared and hated by men of all parties. Noting that Harry "was addicted to the naked insult," Sherwood quotes Hugh Johnson without disapproval : "He has a mind like a razor, a tongue like a skinning knife, a temper like a Tartar and a sufficient vocabulary of parlor profanity-words kosher enough to get by the censor but acid enough to make a mule-skinner jealous . . . He's just a highminded...