Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife," Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy used to say. "I can't work at politics if I have to call home every half hour and if I can't stay away from supper when I want to." Next week in Washington's St. Matthew's Cathedral, Bachelor McCarthy, 43, will make a place in his life for tall, auburn-haired Jean Kerr, 29, "the most beautiful girl" at George Washington University in 1945 and for four years a research assistant in McCarthy's office. Said the prospective bridegroom: "She's the prettiest...
...wife lives in the country. Mornings, he putters about "doing the things that have to be done"-sending out laundry, answering letters and the telephone. Afternoons, he paints with the same old sureness of line, every stroke certain and in place. The work goes slowly, but Matthew Smith does not let himself worry about that. Says he: "You have to think about what you've done by the end of the year-not at the end of the week or the day. If you think about that, you get panic-stricken...
...successor, had to make do in a commodious brick mansion at Fort McNair. When the new Joint Chiefs were appointed last May, Collins saw trouble ahead. If Admiral Arthur Radford, new boss of the JCS. followed Bradley's precedent and moved into Quarters I, Collins reasoned, then General Matthew Ridgway, Collins' own successor, would probably pre-empt the house at Fort McNair, and Collins would be househunting again...
Author Cronin's British memories seem to have got confused by his 14 years of residence in the U.S., so that his book is like a game of baseball played by somebody who thinks it is cricket. The villain of the novel, Sir Matthew Sprott, prosecutor for the Crown, can be best described as a go-getting U.S. district attorney with a knighthood. Wortley's police chief is another odd case of hands across the sea, one of those blunt Britons of the old Prohibition gang-war days. As for Wortley's newspapermen, nothing like them...
...father, the cops and the judiciary are forever on his tail, eager to bury the nasty stuff again. But Ulster's Paul fights on with true U.S. idealism, until at last he proves that the murder was committed by a well-known Wortley philanthropist and that Sir Matthew Sprott got the conviction of father Mathry simply to feather his own nest...