Word: speakin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...features that followed, Wayne earned his head-'em-off-at-the-passport, but his salary and his reputation remained minuscule. In one he suffered the ultimate indignity as Singin' Sandy, the screen's first melodious cowpoke. The hoarse opera was swiftly dubbed, and Wayne returned to the role of Speakin' Star. The movies soon found an acceptable substitute: fella named Gene Autry...
...biography of Wallace, describes Wallace's pathetic efforts to convince Alabama Negroes to support him, or at least to convince himself that they did: at one ponit, Wallace is quoted as telling a group of Negro educators, just before the 1966 campaign for governor, "Now I get out speakin' to folks, don't pay any attention to what I say, 'cause I'm gonna have to fuss at y'all. But I don't mean...
...floor covering. "This legislation," he said, "represents the single most important breakthrough in the last 40 years," and "will take us many long strides" toward Franklin Roosevelt's dream of "a decent and dignified home" for every family. Johnson capped the week with a bipartisan signin' and speakin', this time approving a bill to create a national historical site in memory of Herbert Hoover at West Branch, Iowa, where Hoover was born and now lies buried. Johnson invited every big G.O.P. name he could think of, but the notice was short and most sent regrets. Unfazed, Johnson...
...Heart. Through the year, whether he was hoisting his beagles by the ears, bellowing through a bullhorn to invite campaign crowds to "a speakin','' or roaring along a Texas road holding his five-gallon hat over the speedometer, Johnson made colorful copy and was copiously covered. Even when fear of getting too much news exposure induced him to try to get away from it all-as when he took a powerboat trip on Granite Shoals Lake last July-newsmen pursued him on foot, by boat and by plane, and photographers zeroed in from afar with telescopic lenses...
Many of our well-dressed friends were surprised earlier this year when they found themselves casting their Presidential ballots for a man who had shown himself capable of leaping atop a freshly Simonized limousine, grabbing a bull horn and shouting hoarsely, "Y' all come to the speakin...