Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first intimations of a G.O.P. landslide, his reply had been guarded: "At a time like this, you just don't feel good-you feel numb." Now. with Pat Nixon at his side, as she had been throughout the campaign, all numbness had disappeared. The election Scoreboard had seen to that. Reaching for a drink. Nixon seemed to relax for the first time since he launched his bone-wearying campaign on Sept...
Restaurants were overflowing and local novelty shops did a landoffice business on toy tigers. An occasional undergraduate carrying text books could be seen travelling furtively along the edges of the crowd...
...What's the matter boy, you don't want to dance?" He didn't. "With all your money, you should buy people drinks." He did. "You know, we haven't seen those kind of cigarettes for several years..." and so on, or something like it, until they were up in the hotel bedroom and he wanted her to leave because tomorrow was to be a big day of espionage and he needed sleep. She left cheerfully and he slept restlessly, and the lesson we all learned from this was that people aren't always what you first take them...
...Parson's Lane." nearly falling off but "by a cunning jerk" regaining his balance until "deposited like a dead log at Gaffar Westwood's." He chafed under the increasing constraint that heralded the approaching Victorian era. He died in 1834, aged only 59 but thankful to have seen the last of a "damned, canting, unmasculine, unbawdy age." Mary, ten years his senior, outlived him by 13 years...
...enemy of U.S. institutions. Two recent books make this understandable, though neither one succeeds in really pinning down its man. The Happy Warrior, by Emily Smith Warner, is so obviously a daughter's accolade that one of the most colorful politicians in U.S. history can scarcely be seen through the swaddling layers of worshipfulness. Yet something of his genuineness, of his dedication to the job of government, comes through. He was a Tammany boy, protege of a Lower East Side saloonkeeper turned political boss; yet he managed to stay clear of the Tammany odor. When he spoke on government...