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...announcement of New Jersey's 36-vote break to Stevenson actually came eight hours after the Michigan switch−but New Jersey was the absolute cruncher. When it happened, a top Harriman aide silently drew his finger across his throat...
...page boy at the Kansas City convention of 1900, 16-year-old Harry joined full-throat in the bedlam when William Jennings Bryan ("He was one of my heroes") stampeded his second convention with his silver-tongued, silver-oriented (16 oz. of silver to 1 oz. of gold) oratory. In 1924, then a member of the Jackson County Court under the auspices of hard-knuckled Democrat Boss Tom Pendergast, Politician Truman sat with ears growing numb under his crystal-set earphones. He listened to almost every word of the 14-day, 103 -ballot convention in Madison Square Garden (Alabama...
Daily at 5 a.m., the horse was stuffed into a stall heated to 105° F., subjected to half an hour's isolation in a dank fog of springwater steam. As if that were not enough, tubes were shoved into his mouth and vapor blown down his throat. Later, through a rubber mask over nostrils and mouth, he was forced to inhale more of the curative minerals. After an hour of cooling stall-walking, Pyrame was led out to the light and air, got his daily ration of Bourboulien water, fresh from the spring...
Ugly Word. Late in 1954, too busy to return to the U.S., she went to the U.S. Navy Hospital in Naples, where the doctors found a heightening of the conditions her New York physicians had listed. Noting that gum and mouth tissues were greatly inflamed, a Navy nose-and-throat specialist asked if any of her medicines contained arsenic. None did. It was the first time the ugly word had been mentioned in connection with her illnesses...
...teacup opening day at Ascot and betrays her elegant new accent with hopelessly vulgar reminiscences of her aunt's influenza. ("My aunt died of influenza, so they said, but it's my belief they done the old woman in ... My father, he kept ladling gin down her throat. Then she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl of the spoon...