Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This frail old man of seventy-eight, who may be a politician among saints, but is no less a saint among politicians." Thus the Manchester Guardian last week described Mohandas Gandhi. The description was perfect...
...closely knit community, and it boasted of many "campus characters," men who spent their whole lives in the service of the college boys. Some of them, such as William Emmons, pushed handcarts around the Square. Emmons sold a beverage called "egg pop," whose recipe nobody ever discovered. An amateur politician, Emmons had his harangues printed, and sold them with the drinks...
...grand, good soldier ever made a good politician," generalized General Jonathan Wamwright. He particularized. Eisenhower and MacArthur "are fine soldiers," said he, "and I think it would be a mistake for them to get into politics...
...been close to his subjects, even liked to answer his own telephone. (Since his number was similar to a popular theater's, Stockholmers often inadvertently asked their King for two on the aisle.) He affably hands callers lighted matches for their cigarettes; but once when a Swedish politician, now dead, stuck a cigar in his mouth, expecting the King to light it for. him, Gustaf just let the match drop on the floor...
...teens he pored over Shakespeare and began writing a column signed "Will Westward" for a Raintree County weekly paper. He fell in love with a beautiful girl named Nell. Among his friends were Cassius P. ("Cash") Carney, a boy with business sense, and Garwood Jones, a robust, youthful politician with a shrewd eye for the girls and the main chance. Garwood Jones and Johnny Shawnessy were rivals for Nell, but Garwood would never have won out if Johnny had not been tempted away by a predatory beauty from Louisiana named Susanna Drake...