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...President when he was shot down in the late summer of 1935 by a man whose family he had ruined. Almost equally malign was a Roman Catholic priest, Father Charles Coughlin, whose ardent and often anti-Semitic broadcasts from his Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Mich., brought him a vast following (he regularly received 80,000 letters a week). To overthrow Roosevelt, whom Coughlin denounced as "anti-God," the priest joined forces with Dr. Townsend, the pension crusader, and one of Long's nastier henchmen, the Rev. Gerald L.K. Smith, to launch the Union party. Their...
...Bell, she ran away with a four-fingered gambler one night on the six o'clock boat to Louisville. Laskey Bell, now a rich man, sent his son to Andover and forgot about his wife, living alone in the majestic house he had built for her out of white oak and limestone, sinking into the dyspeptic fog of good whiskey that provided him with his own private Dreamland...
...celebrate the feast of the Epiphany. What they witnessed, along with the Mass, was one of the most courageous displays of free speech since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the spiritual leader of Poland's 33 million Roman Catholics, mounted the carved oak pulpit to attack the excesses of General Wojciech Jaruzelski's military regime...
...when Pasternak was living. Among the keepsakes: the piano where the noted Russian pianist Svyatoslav Richter played all through the night Pasternak died, and the worn kitchen table where Pasternak lifted toasts of vodka the day he learned he had won the Nobel Prize. Upstairs is the oak desk where he wrote, surrounded by shelves lined with hundreds of his books, including foreign language editions of Doctor Zhivago, which is still banned in the Soviet Union...
...breed of proper nouns whose senses have passed over the centuries from the epic to the cheap and commercial. Once the name was instantly recognizable as the hero of Ariosto's 16th-century narrative poem; now it conjures up the strains of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon "Round the Old Oak Tree" and the sun-soaked giant mice of Disneyworld, Florida...