Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sapio fought Finn for district leader again in 1941, won again, and was again refused Tammany's recognition. In 1943, with another De Sapio victory, the Tammany sachems at last gave in (partly because Finn had become involved in a factional dispute with Tammany Leader Mike Kennedy). That year De Sapio took his place on the Tammany Hall executive committee. Within six years he was the Boss...
...fairest of their maidens, eyes downcast and breasts bare, and delivered a proposition from their chief: the girl was his, but if there were no sons, the explorer must give his breeches to the chief. "To refuse point blank would have insulted the whole tribe," explains doughty British Explorer "Mike" Hedges. "On the other hand, I obviously could not accept." What to do in this social dilemma? Mike turned to Lady ";Mabs" Richmond Brown, a venturesome British aristocrat who had accompanied him to the Central American wilderness. Lady Mabs, Mike told the headman of the tribe, was already his bride...
Wall Street to Villa. Explorer F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, now 72, zestfully recalls a good bookful of such tall tales for gin-and-tonic reading. "Life without adventure is a state of being half dead," is Mike Hedges' philosophy, and in 1900 he turned from "staid old lady" London to seek fortunes in Wall Street and buried ruins in Honduras. Armed with a letter of introduction to Financier Jules Bache, Mike made tens of thousands on the Street and soon got close enough to the imperial J. P. Morgan to be able to inquire at a dinner party: "Railroad...
...panted at the crowd: "I had a lot of things to say, but they will have to wait until a better time. I thank you for this great reception, but you have spoiled part of my happiness by this confusion." Unable to hear this gentle reproof because the mike was dead, the crowd at last dispersed, tired but happy. As Nehru sank into a comfortable seat in President Prasad's car, the police gathered up the casualties and carried them away on stretchers beneath an archway inscribed with the glowing words: "Welcome, Great Messenger of World Peace Nehru...
...first of six announced sermons on "Christianity and Communism" when Canterbury Cathedral's 100 loudspeakers began emitting earsplitting squeals. Said the Dean: "I think there must be an enemy here." (Technicians later found that somebody had tampered with the public-address system.) Then he turned off the mike, launched into a sermon that his congregation found even more earsplitting...