Word: kingfisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good all-round university, Tulane has an illustrious medical school more than a century old, a football team that often tops the Southern Conference, an administration spunky enough to hold up its end of a feud with Kingfish Huey Long after refusing him an honorary degree. An all-round educator, President-Elect Harris was born in Georgia and went to Mercer University there, graduating in 1917, just in time to serve as a Wartime first lieutenant of infantry. After that he studied at Yale Law School, became a Doctor of Jurisprudence, reached his Tulane deanship in 1927. He established Tulane...
...Real navigator, says Author Flynn, was Providence. They all took turns at the hand pump, which had to be kept going most of the time. Figuring a couple of months for the trip, they took seven, with many a layover for repairs and beachcombing. Once they made $50 catching kingfish; poker games showed a profit; they poached a sheep, paid for it later out of the fee collected on an opium-runner's errand. Diversions included their own brand of Rabelaisian horseplay, drinking bouts, a couple of carnivals, acquaintance with many an odd character...
Joseph F. Dinneen a reporter on the Boston Globe and author of "Ward Eight" and the articles "Murder in Massachusetts" and "The Kingfish of Massachusetts," which recently appeared in Harpers Magazine, will be the guest of honor at the weekly House Dinner on Monday. After dinner he will take in the Upper Commen Room on "A Realistic Approach to Local Politics". Outside guests are welcome to the speech...
Such an epoch-making statement should not be passed over lightly. Surely this disgraceful situation cannot be known on Beacon Hill; surely if the sacred kingfish of the State House were to find out that irregularities had attended his rise to the seat of power he could not go on as the hit-and-run servant of the people. And even should he feel that he could, this new voice of the people from Dorchester would not permit it, for he has a plan--and in all fairness, it is not a bad plan...
...result of this polished goading, Mr. Curley lost his usual composure and indulged in a fit of childish wrath which delighted his over-growing circle of enemies. At President Roosevelt's train the "Kingfish" accused Mr. Angell of talking teachers' oaths while Rome burned down. And Rome is burning. It is the Rome of Mr. Curley's authority over this Commonwealth. A year ago, when his seat of power was secure, one cannot imagine the self-confident governor injured by a professor's dart. Here is another shriek of retreat to show that Mr. Curley knows what November third...