Word: rudolph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here he found the answer to complaints about the impracticability of dried, wax, papiermache, and alcohol-preserved flowers. Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, father and son, were expert practitioners of their Bohemian ancestors' glass artistry. Goodale went to Germany and persuaded them to take some time away from their lucrative marine work and devote it to the field of botany, which they had invaded before...
...votes, 46.3% of all ballots cast. Republican Candidate Harold Riegelman got 661,410 votes, 29.9% of the total, the highest percentage that any candidate for mayor of New York City has ever received on the Republican ticket. Tagging along as a poor third (468,392 votes) was Liberal Candidate Rudolph Halley, better known outside New York than any of the other candidates because of his television performances as the Kefauver committee's chief inquisitor...
...York in the biggest Democratic city-wide landslide in eight years. He won with expected ease, piling up a margin of almost 2 to 1 over his nearest rival, Republican Harold Riegelman, in four of the five boroughs. They split evenly in the fifth. Liberal Party candidate Rudolph Halley, with 370,000 votes, was third behind Riegelman's 527,000 and Wagner...
...engineered the court fight over the signatures, the Wagnerites seemed almost as glum as Impy when it was all over. The move, they feared, on second thought, might just help Republican Candidate Harold Riegelman instead of damaging the Liberal Party's hornrimmed hoot owl, ex-Kefauver Committee Counsel Rudolph Halley. And the Wagnerites had cause to be embarrassed on another count: after crying that a mysterious, top-level Republican Mr. X had attempted to get Big-Time Racketeer Joey Fay out of prison (a charge calculated to embarrass not only local but state and national Republican administrations as well...
...wrote music for revues at the Teatro Lirico, and in 1932 began croaking his own songs in an immensely popular radio program. Lara became a kind of musical version of Rudolph Valentino. Touring neighboring republics, he was mobbed by women in the streets. After quarreling with his actress-wife, Carmen Zozoya, Lara met Movie Star María Felix just before a party in honor of her first big picture. "Please come, Señor Lara," cooed María. "But I warn you that we have no piano. Just a guitar." Next day he sent her a snow-white...