Word: moley
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...spare time in Minneapolis, Morse got his law degree; then he went on to New York to work on his doctorate (in jurisprudence) at Columbia, under Professor Raymond Moley. His thesis, a study of the grand-jury system, is a definitive work on the subject. Moley was enormously attracted to his bright young student. Later Moley changed his mind about Morse-and, of course, vice versa...
...faculty rebellion against the university's autocratic old chancellor, W. Jasper Kerr, ultimately forcing him to resign and splashing the name of Morse in every newspaper in Oregon. In 1936 Morse went to Washington as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings (on the recommendation of Raymond Moley) to direct a nationwide study of the administration of criminal law. In 1938 Frances Perkins appointed him West Coast maritime arbitrator, where he made a brilliant reputation as a fair and meticulous judge...
...shower-off; plus fours and no breakfast, you know ... a bombastic adolescent provincial bohemian with a thick-knotted artist's tie made out of his sister's scarf-she never knew where it had gone ... a gabbing, ambitious, mock-tough, pretentious young man; and moley, too." Or he can roll all the world's seaside picnics into an impressionistic memory of one boyhood frolic: "August Bank Holiday-a tune on an ice-cream cornet. A slap of sea and a tickle of sand ... A wince and whinny of bathers dancing into deceptive water. A tuck of dresses...
...publicize a new history book, Publishers Grosset & Dunlap asked a panel of 28 historians, educators and journalists (including Authors Stuart Chase and Raymond Moley, Journalists Ernest K. Lindley and Virginius Dabney) to rate the 100 most significant events in history. First place: Columbus' discovery of America. Second: Gutenberg's development of movable type. Eleven events tied for third place. Tied for fourth place: U.S. Constitution takes effect, ether makes surgery painless, X ray discovered, Wright brothers' plane flies, Jesus Christ is crucified...
...verbal barrage Moley said, "We find an affinity for a whole school of political sophisticates. They screen their advocacy of a super-government in a mass of pleasant verbiage. Archie MacLeish is the poet laureate of this school; Leon Henderson, its economist; Arthur Schlesinger Jr., its historian; and Stevenson, its statesman...