Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ward One in East Boston, a state representative and state senator, an associate of such lights as "Diamond Jim" Timilty, the Roxbury boss, and Smiling Jim Donovan of the South End. Grandfather Fitzgerald was a U.S. Congressman and twice mayor of Boston. Honey Fitz's theme song was Sweet Adeline, his political creed was based on the sound premise that the strength of textile-making New England depended on everybody's wearing long woolen underwear, and he thought of himself as "the last honest mayor Boston ever...
...such handicaps by traipsing tirelessly through the slums of the Eleventh District shaving in back alleys before speaking appearances ("The Kennedy campaign trail," says a friend, "was littered with used razor blades"). And on the night of June 18, 1946, old Honey Fitz climbed onto a table to sing Sweet Adeline in celebration of his grandson's primary victory over eight other Democrats. The general election was a mere formality: Republicans do not get elected in the Eleventh District...
...Reddick's neck and pressed the trigger. The piece clicked harmlessly, and Reddick leaped behind a nearby fire truck. "Look, buddy," he shouted, "there's enough cops here to kill you before you can move. Why don't you act sensible?" Still clutching his camera, Reddick sweet-talked his way over to the gun slinger, grabbed his shooting hand as a cop leaped on the man from behind...
Like Squillante, the Professor showed up at the hearings, but in rasping, properly pedagogic tones grabbed the Fifth, and puffed away on Sweet Caporals. To newsmen he later allowed as how he had finished his doctoral dissertation, "Moral, Sociological and Economic Aspects of Labor-Management Relations," but he avoided discussion of his old cronies. Observed the Professor, in a summing up that seemed to fit the imminent destiny of his scavenger pals: "They are all dead -literally...
Wakeman tried to wake the public with sweet reason, but he also used the whiplash, and the script still lays it on. "Ain't that beautiful?" sighs one of the airmen, with the blissful look of a man falling asleep after a hard day's work, as he listens to a radio commercial. "Everybody still selling things to everybody else." And when asked what he is fighting for, Grant blandly quotes the cornball who declared, "I'm fighting for my right to boo the Dodgers." But the moviemakers, well aware that the script is flogging a dead...