Word: mckinleyism
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...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...
Idle Hands. In San Diego, Sailor David S. McKinley, arrested for carrying a weapon made of iron bolts wrapped with adhesive tape, explained: "I didn't have anything to do on the ship one day, so I made this blackjack...
...Wirt as a presidential candidate against Mason Andrew Jackson and capture Vermont's electoral votes. A century later, Franklin Roosevelt, a 32nd degree Mason, won the electoral votes of every state in the Union except Vermont and Maine. Altogether, 13 U.S. Presidents have been Masons; some others: Johnson, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, and Harry Truman...