Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...careers group themselves with the many patriots who have served their country well, but who by no means could be said to have dominated their times. They are John Adams, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Johnson, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, McKinley, Taft, Coolidge, and Hoover...
Married. Russel McKinley Crouse, 52, waggish teammate of Howard Lindsay in playwriting and producing (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace); and Anna Erskine, 29, theatrical production assistant (Lindsay & Crouse), only daughter of Author John Erskine; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
Sickles was now in his 80s. To William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, says author Pinchon, he was a valued counselor; to veterans an adored hero. ("It is my guess," observed Sickles' friend Mark Twain, "that if the General had to lose a leg, he'd rather lose the one he has than the one he hasn't.") And, incredibly enough, he was still the terror of matrons with unmarried daughters. The great bureau in his bedroom was stuffed with silk stockings, lingerie and perfume; to a lady who said she would prefer to be rewarded with...
...member one singles match, Half Hunter halted Larry Stewart of the visitors, 6-4, 6-0. Murray Levin, in the second stlot, vanquished Pete McKinley, 6-1, 6-2, while Fred Bolton best Bob Bartlett of Worcester in three sets...
Teaming up in the doubles, Levin and Hunter won a clean victory over Stewart and McKinley, 6-1, 6-2, though the home team's second doubles combination of Al Alpern and Frothingham encountered, more difficulty, finally coming...