Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual brochure, Los Angeles' Utter-McKinley Mortuaries last week took note of recent developments of interest to its clients. On the front page was a large picture of a bursting A-bomb and a panel of rules to be followed in case of an atomic attack. Just in case anyone forgot the rules, there was also a double-page layout of variously priced Utter-McKinley caskets. And with each brochure Utter-McKinley had thoughtfully enclosed a little card which no careless person should be without. It read: "To County Coroner, Authorized Authorities or Whom it May Concern, in event...
...brief stops along the way he shook hands with local Democrats, accepted a batch of birthday cakes (on Monday he was 66) and traded good-natured sallies with trainside crowds. By the time he reached Galesburg, Ill., which had not been visited by a President since William McKinley stopped there in 1899, the President was drawing crowds and sniping away at the Republicans who opposed his foreign policy ("They can't see beyond their noses"). At Lincoln, Neb., in the heart of the farm belt, he got around to the first of nine formal speeches of the tour. Opposition...
...would be anxious themselves to enjoy the blessings which they urge upon the reluctant Orangemen. When the exchange is accomplished, the opposition to a united Ireland will end, the U.S. will gain several hundred thousand of the sober and diligent folk who gave us Andrew Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, Cleveland, McKinley and Woodrow Wilson, and Ireland will gain a like number of Hagues, Curleys, O'Dwyers, McCarthys-"The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you; but it really does not matter whom you put upon the list, for they'd none...
Perhaps the unique . . . gesture of congratulation to T. S. Eliot on his receipt of the Nobel Prize came from four State University of Iowa students. They sent him a jazz record then popular-Ray McKinley's You've Come a Long Way from St. Louis. A prompt acknowledgment came from Eliot...
Presidents Grant, McKinley and Garfield slept in 1350's beds, ate off its golden plates. The Duke and Duchess of Veragua came, and the Prince of Wales, who was later to become Edward VII. So did the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, but when she learned that Mrs. Palmer was, after all, an "innkeeper's wife," she salved her pride by arriving hours late, and accepting her hostess' curtsy without a smile...