Word: kentuckian
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...close friends knew old Mr. Justice McReynolds as the gallant, trust-busting Kentuckian of another day, the bachelor legendarily faithful to the memory of his schoolgirl sweetheart (for years he reportedly made annual pilgrimages to Ella Pearson's grave in Louisiana, Mo.), the courtly wit of Washington society Sunday breakfasts, the man who wept at the graveside of Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and for whom Justice Holmes himself confessed a fondness...
...stained Kentuckian, Burridge Davenal Butler, bought Prairie Farmer from Rand McNally & Co., who then owned it. As a 21-year-old reporter he had covered the Johnstown Flood, by the time he was 30 had turned a down-at-heels Grand Rapids paper into a valuable property. After starting three papers of his own (all called The Daily News) in Omaha, St. Paul, Minneapolis, buying into the Kansas City World, Des Moines News, at 40 he had retired to take life easy. No more a farmer than Editor Wright, he bought Prairie Farmer to keep from being bored...
Early American Carols and Folk Songs (John Jacob Niles, ballad singer; Victor: 8 sides; $3.50). Strumming a dulcimer, Kentuckian Niles croons ancient carols, rousing ditties like The Frog and the Mouse and The Carrion Crow...
George Britt is a softspoken, grey-haired Kentuckian who has been a newspaperman for 24 of his 44 years. A liberal with no nonsense about him, he collaborated with the late Heywood Broun in an expose of antiSemitism, has been a New York World-Telegram expert at unearthing municipal corruption for ten years. Last June George Britt wrote a series of articles on fifth-column activities in the U. S. that pulled together a good many facts on the size and tactics of subversive organizations, painted a picture that was scary but not altogether clear. Last week he turned...
...last Chairman Barkley restored order by asking for a doctor: "A lady has been seriously injured!" The demonstration stopped immediately and the paunchy Kentuckian bellowed on with his speech...