Word: norrisism
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He was no man to fit easily into any pigeonhole; if there was one, it had long gone unused. On the basis of the record so far, Douglas seemed to be the nearest visible approach to an almost forgotten breed of American maverick-the old freewheeling Republican independent like Idaho...
Clutterbuck suffers acutely at times from deckchair gabble and shipboard sameness. Yet it is very often - particularly during an act spent ashore - both effervescent and funny. It boasts such small ingenuities as having Clutterbuck never utter a word; such larger achievements as making Mrs. Clutterbuck a fine blend of sappiness...
The dusty, backlands Brazilian hamlet of Estaçäo de Santa Barbara was just a whistle stop on the Paulista Railroad until two foreigners arrived there in 1868. The foreigners were Colonel William H. Norris and his son Robert, unreconstructed U.S. rebels from Oglethorpe, Ga. Heartsick at the South...
Breaststrokes Larry Ward and Chuck Hoolzer and distance men Ted Norris and Jerry Gorman are the missing persons. Ex-captains Gorman '48-'40) and Hoolzer ('47-'48) and Norris graduated in June, and Ward is unavailable for personal reasons.
Chicagoans had heard much about two of the three, multimillionaire Grain Merchant James Norris, owner of Detroit's Red Wing hockey team, and Charles Deere Wiman, president of the century-old John Deere Plow Co. and brother of Theatrical Producer Dwight Deere Wiman. Virtually unknown was spruce Henry Crown...