Word: throttlebottoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose taste is not always unexceptionable, might have picked a better name for his latest hero than Richard Roe. The name, with other Roe-ish actions and qualities, will irresistibly remind many a reader who has seen the Pulitzer-Prizewinning Of Thee I Sing of that forgotten man, Alexander Throttlebottom. Author Morley has not tried to make his hero heroic but he has certainly not intended to go to the other extreme and make him vicepresidential...
When the sandblasting was over. Dr. France tried to get to the rostrum himself. Protesting about "his rights," he was bundled off by policemen (like Nominee Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing). He was rescued by Hearst newshawks, allowed to pour out his grievances: "This is a colossal piece of political racketeering. I was going to put the name of Calvin Coolidge before the convention and it would have stampeded them. And Snell knew it. The nomination of this man Hoover is invalid...
...family lived on tinned beef and dried apricots until, at the crucial moment, Julius, the missing Secretary, re appeared. He brought with him Man- That-Jumps-Like-a-Flea, an Osage Indian who was to save them all. The complaint of the raging mob outside was that Throttlebottom, the Vice President, had not a Constitutional amount of Indian blood. A transfusion appeased the mob and the day was saved. Ex-President Wintergreen concludes: "I had done my duty by America and ... I'd be damned if I'd do it again...