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...traveled to Egypt, Constantinople, Beirut and other suitably exotic places. The trip was not a success; "As a worshipper of the sun, he was handicapped by an aversion to heat and to southern parts." Something of his prosaic Boston background apparently survived in Crosby despite his flamboyant efforts to thumb his nose at his heritage...
...populist turned black-baiting U.S. Senator (1920-31), was drummed out of the Democratic Party in 1928 for attacking Presidential Nominee Al Smith as "the Roman candidate." Young Howell went to Birmingham Southern College, served as a Marine officer in World War II and still has a stiff right thumb from machine-gun wounds suffered on Guam. After graduating from the University of Alabama Law School in 1948, he opened an office in Tuscumbia. His first month's gross income: $8 including four $1 fees...
...make little sense. Yet the hecklers' sensibility comes through only in this characteristic illogic. People in Boston may no longer be sure who to lash out at, only that you have to lash out at somebody or else meekly and against your proud, cultural instincts, crawl back under the thumb of the "have-gots...
...door to the room quickly behind her and then, as she receded playfully backward, motioned 'Come hither' with her finger until, seeing she could retreat no further, I closed my eyes delightedly and was just about to move beyond games with a kiss when she smilingly stuck her thumb in her mouth and giggled...
...make little sense. Yet the hecklers' sensibility comes through only in this characteristic illogic. People in Boston may no longer be sure who to lash out at, only that you have to lash out at somebody or else meekly and against your proud, cultural instincts, crawl back under the thumb of the "have-gots...