Word: marvinism
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...with incessant regularity. While he stopped beside a road in Washington to watch a "high-rigger" lumberjack lop the top off a fir tree, another kind of high-rigger slung a wire across the single telephone wire along the road, handed the instrument to the President's Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. Spadework on last week's speech was presumably done in the State Department by specialists like Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis. The President presumably reworked their drafts-adding appropriate passages from Lost Horizon-as his train sped east with few visitors aboard...
...Lakeview, Ore., a mad coyote attacked Marvin Gess, 7, bit him five times in the calf of one leg. Ranchers clubbed the coyote to death, slit its throat, pried its jaws loose from Marvin Gess's calf...
Young Barkley was a forerunner of the youths who work their way through college taking magazine subscriptions. He sold kitchenware form house to house. The best senior honor at Marvin was the Declamation Prize. Senior Barkley won that. He remembers that for a long time afterward no function was considered complete unless he delivered his recitation...
...Marvin College no more, Emory Junior College and the University of Virginia law school have made the most of his new prominence as democratic Senate leader. He studied at both schools, but learned the rest of his law in Paducah, Ky., under the prototype of Irvin S. Cobb's "Judge Priest...
Already 60, husky, quick with a joke, Leader Barkley's position will be a difficult one when Congress reconvenes. The path revolt is under way, and the opposition won't clear out as easily as that which faded before Alben Barkley sweeping down the football field for Marvin College...