Word: live
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wheels in 435 different directions. Small chance. In the 170 years of its existence the House, through trial and error (with plenty of both), has developed a remarkable system of self-government, comprised of hard rules and of a hard breed of men who, however else they may differ, live by their rules. The five top leaders of the House have only one thing in common. They can all say with Speaker Sam Rayburn: "I love this House. It is my life." Through the Big Five, both in their personalities and their positions, the House can best be understood...
...approaches" hung high like pie in the sky, and Lyndon Johnson was gone clean out of this world. But the U.S. will probably keep on at a straight, steady pace -in large part because of the five powerful men who love the U.S. House of Representatives and, loving it, live...
...wear gloves and keep their cigarette-lighter wicks trimmed as acts of thoughtfulness to their ladies. "We must defend Paris," he said, "against the hatless." With full dress there could be no compromise: a dinner jacket was so informal it was a "masterpiece of vulgarity and ugliness." The live-modern age could not be forgiven because it had "killed dilettantism." Tastefully, Le Figaro said of his death: "Andre de Fouquières leaves Parisian life at the dawn of the epoch of severity. Animator of so many fetes and rejoicings of other times, he disappears as if by discretion...
...right about himself: he was a child in mind as his wife (whom he married when he was 27 and she 13) was a child in fact. But it was no mythical kingdom by the sea in which he had to live, but a hard-headed republic of farmers and merchants...
...took Griffith to Europe, he, like many another American, fell under the spell of the Continent's ancient glories, but coolly assessed its caretaker, rather than dare-taker, cultures. He admired the well-bred aplomb of knowledgeable Englishmen whose ease of manner gives "the impression of having already lived once," but found "too many reserved seats" in English life. He was drawn to the independent French spirit of live-and-let-live, but noted the spiritual vacuum in which "French intellectuals so often seem to dislike the present, to fear the future and to deny the hereafter. They believe...