Word: restedness
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At 8:15 one morning, rested and fit after his vacation, he appeared at his desk in Denver's Brown Palace Hotel, called a staff meeting. First of all, said Ike, he wanted everyone to wear "a ready grin . . . Confidence is required in any battle. I'm confident...
On that agreement rested Barkley's slim hope for the nomination. It was not good enough. Too many of the party leaders knew that the Democrats are facing the fight of a generation against the G.O.P. ticket of Eisenhower and Nixon.
Thirteen Bob a Week. Johnson was picked for the deanery in 1931 by his friend, Laborite Ramsay MacDonald. When the "Red Dean" earned his first notoriety as a mere pink, nobody minded too much. Like a well-cast stock actor clothed in Episcopal gaiters, his shining pate tonsured by nature...
Though Manx Shearwaters usually migrate roughly north-and-south, Puffinus did not hesitate. He turned east over Boston Harbor and headed straight for home and eggs. Ahead, by the shortest route, lay nearly 3,300 miles of the North Atlantic. Puffinus, if he followed the custom of his species, rested...
These were the days when every undergraduate at least professed an interest in athletics. Up to the Yale game, the 1923 football season was rather successful. After a 16 to 0 defeat at the hands of Dartmouth (bemoaned in those days as the "worst game since 1907") the team rolled...