Word: norbeck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rarely does the ex-President let the story of his twelve years in Washington get in the way of statistical detail, but occasionally a light note slips in, e.g., the time that hornyhanded Senator Norbeck of South Dakota, in the midst of a powerful political delivery at dinner, placed his ice cream on one of Mrs. Hoover's prized Belgian lace doilies and gulped down doily and all. But in the four presidential years, which plunged, only a few months after Inauguration Day, into the opaque depths of the Great Depression, there was a minimum of things to laugh...