Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political dopesters outside Virginia had bet on flop-eared, wing-collared Representative Howard W. Smith to succeed to the Senate seat of the late Carter Glass. Howard Smith, archfoe of labor unions, was a national figure, openly sought the post and was a member in good standing of Senator Harry F. Byrd's all-powerful state machine...
...these happy circumstances delegates voted freely. After jockeying about with old-fashioned gusto, the convention picked not Smith, but tall, stooped A. Willis Robertson, 59, a Congressman for 13 years, a member of the Ways & Means Committee for ten years. Virginians recognized Robertson's own special qualities: he is an expert on wild life, a conservative lawyer, a believer in economy...
Harrumphed disappointed Howard Smith: "A great demonstration of democracy at work. . . . The man who cannot drink the dregs of defeat is not entitled to quaff the elixir of victory...
...brotherhood of races and creeds, human decency, class democracy (it has enough "little men" to man a Liberty ship). Above all, it has a religious theme-and in recent years a slew of novels, good & bad (including The Robe, The Song of Bernadette, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith) have proved to publishers that in an unhappy world religion, no matter how vulgarized, has a market value second only to sex. In The Miracle, religious faith is trumpeted with a shamelessness that would make an atheist blush...
...Smith sternly refused to show the tablets, warned that a mere peep would cause instant death, himself examined them through "magic spectacles...