Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Chairman Hamilton turned his attentions briefly to Eastern headquarters in Manhattan, run by the Landon convention floor manager, Massachusetts' genial, bumbling Representative Joseph William Martin Jr. In the opinion of newshawks assigned to cover it. the No. 2 GOP headquarters could do with some of the jacking up which the chairman had furnished in Chicago. One major trouble, complained they, was that Joe Martin's assistant publicity man, onetime Hoover Secretary George Akerson, treated the press as though he were still in the White House...
...ahead because his daughter was in the hospital, his business failing, and his wife in love with another man; Phyllis Foster worried over injustice; Gabriel Gadbury worried over his wife's extravagance; Robert E. Lee refused to worry over what history would say of his surrender; Martin Luther chose to be true to himself when "faced with one of the greatest decisions in history." In it are to be found a catalog of definitions of worry, a quotation from Kipling's If and a running commentary on worry and the social order. Although real worriers are likely...
...Mississippi, Pat Harrison's 2-to-1 majority over Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner was not only a triumph for Senator Harrison and the New Deal, but also a thoroughgoing rebuke to junior Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, who had vented his spite against the senior Senator by campaigning for Conner. Theme of all 15 speakers at a Harrison victory feast in Jackson: "Now that we've licked Bilbo, we'll throw him into the Gulf four years from...
...Martin, a new baritone singing When Did You Leave Heaven; Menjou in a hospital nightshirt. " Seven Sinners (Gaumont British) is a frank attempt to duplicate the success of, last year's outstandingly good Gaumont British comic-melodrama The Thirty-Nine Steps. A close imitation in urbane direction, restrained acting, swift pace, it has one important difference. Whereas The Thirty-Nine Steps was the tale of a hunted man, Seven Sinners is the story of a hunter...
...most readers, there is likely to be no question as to which has made the happier choice of subject. In Poems of People Edgar Lee Masters lapsed into stock poetic attitudes in writing of Washington at Fraunces' Tavern, Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Boone, De Soto. Only in Andrew Jackson does he carry out the promise of his title, calling...