Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are some who say that we have nothing left to say, that we did all we had to do after 1945," exclaimed Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, his wiry hair flying, his sharply whittled nose pecking the air with indignation. Before him in Scarborough's Spa Grand Hall, some 1,500 Labor Party delegates sat in somber conclave last week for what all presumed would be their last annual conference before a general election in the spring...
Obligingly had Florida's Bade County Metro Commission voted to legalize gambling in the Miami area after ex-Heavyweight Champ Jack Dempsey, 63. now a heavy 250 or so, stepped up to say that he and some Manhattan backers had $1,000.-ooo to open a casino. But both Bade and Bempsey went down for the count when word of the project reached Governor...
Peripatetic Bemocrat Adlai Stevenson, arriving in San Francisco to do some political hustling for fellow Bemocrats, did his spent best to hush up any 1960 talk about himself for, say, the presidency. After a girl handed him a broom "to sweep them all out in 1960." photographers gleefully demanded a flurry of retakes. Clutching the broom, an embarrassed Stevenson advanced grimly on a squad of girls bearing "Don't say no, Adlai" placards, mumbled helplessly: "I'm sorry to disappoint you-I'll try to find another candidate...
...professor at Harvard. That's very important. If Princeton pushes a man, I know it means I'll have to look somewhere else. I don't trust Columbia either, or Chicago. With one or two exceptions in each department, those bastards are shysters; they'll say anything about anyone to get a man placed." Say the authors: "We have no desire to expose, only to analyze...
...ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn...