Word: kingfishers
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...seems like blasphemy at this serious hour in our country's history for the oldest educational institution to herald to the world that it entertained a strip-teaser and that the students indulged in stripping themselves," said the "Kingfish of Massachusetts...
...until it seemed he was not going to mention Huey at all, finally got around to Huey's courage and prowess in debate, ended with a roar: "Friend and foe alike denounced the way he was taken away!" It was a painful show. The backwoods followers of the Kingfish who still loved him could find no echo of their feeling in what was said. The people who still hated him could only wonder how the statue of such a cheap-Jack could be given Capitol-room. The journalists who remembered him found it strange that the outrageous Huey could...
...miles a day, the Presidential yacht Potomac, escorted by the destroyer U.S.S. Benson, slid away from the ship lanes, around Great Isaac Island, Great Stirrup Cay, Mangrove Cay and Grand Bahama, little paradises of white beaches, tropical palms and turquoise water. Adviser Hopkins landed a 4-foot, 25-lb. kingfish; Secretary Stephen T. Early hooked an 80-lb. shark...
...Administration had only one bad moment, at the hands of little, black-eyed jumping-jack Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana, who was a Huey Long adjutant at the time the late Kingfish, looking fondly at his henchmen, said: "I can buy & sell legislators like sacks of potatoes." Last week Senator Ellender stood ready to fight for his amendment, which would merely have added a paragraph to the effect that nothing in the measure gave the President any additional authorization to send an A. E. F. outside the Western Hemisphere, wherever that is. Many a mother-conscious Senator stood ready...
...veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano in behalf of the principles of my party." But meatily between the thick-hunked verbiage were sandwiched slices of wit and wisdom. He was one man who dared to tackle rough-&-tumble Huey Long in debate on the Senate floor. He left the Kingfish lacerated, pop-mouthed, speechless...