Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beer Bottles? All week long, Democratic speakers had paid homage to REA's power. Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy, a strong presidential hopeful, promised that the Democratic Congress would "not go back on our word" by raising REA interest rates. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson sounded a call to man the barricades against any Administration attempt to raise the interest rates: "We will fight them with beer bottles. The time has arrived when you must ask no quarter and we must give none.'' House Speaker Sam Rayburn, co-author of the 1935 act that created REA, asked...
Captain Bill Trebilcock experienced an unaccountably rough night in the foil, losing all three of his matches, and Dave Johnson dropped two out of three bouts. An unexpected star developed in the person of Engineer Gerry Yarbrough, who won both of his encounters...
Bill Trebilcock, Dave Johnson, and Phil Charat in foil will have the task of facing M.I.T.'s Barry Schaible, who is capable of giving them their roughest battle of the season...
...Author Johnson's novel covers the last summer of Skipton's life. A party of English tourists comes to Bruges, and Skipton sets out to fleece them for his winter wear. He finds a whore for one of the men and snob delights for the woman in the party; for both sexes he arranges a Pigalle-type "spectacle." But by summer's end Skipton has himself been swindled out of what little money remains to him: his sole consolation is that death is close enough to save him from the agonies of another winter...
British Novelist Johnson parodies Rolfe to perfection in all his attributes save one; the mad genius that cut Hadrian the Seventh into one of the diamonds of modern fiction. But she tells her tale waspishly and well, and transports to the canals of Bruges much of the sacred luster and glory that Frederick Rolfe adored in Venice...