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...convivial, emaciated Presidential Secretary Marvin ("Mac") McIntyre, who usually runs news headquarters ashore when the President goes to sea without the press. Detailed to take "Mac's" place in Miami was Assistant Secretary Bill Hassett, the quiet, dependable oldtime AP man whom Franklin Roosevelt calls "My Bartlett, my Roget, my Buckle...
...John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words & Phrases, Henry Thomas Buckle's History of Civilization are three indispensable aids to erudite orators...
...have to have a lot of special reporters for the various sports, and there are 24 men on this board. There is one lady employed who does nothing but take care of the cross word puzzles, and she is better than Roget's Treasury of Words as a reference book...
...something of the flatness of circus lemonade. There are also the over-fecund keys of typewriter and linotype, where flying fingers run riot in a manner unknown to the plodding scribe and compositor of an earlier day. Finally, there are the advertisers, who distill the strongest potations from Mr. Roget's Thesaurus to set off the merits of each new whisk-broom...
...currently common, uncomplimentary terms for Jew, apparently too modern for Roget's are: hebe (collegiate and journalese), kike (general). Cleveland Jews call Cleveland Heights, where many co-religionists reside, "Kike's Peak...