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...Father of His Country, but also as the Stepfather of His Country and the Father of Pittsburgh. At least four U.S. Presidents were known as "His Accidency" (Tyler, Fillmore, Arthur and Andrew Johnson). That name, while suggestive, is still a cut above "His Fraudulency" (Rutherford B. Hayes). Mar tin Van Buren was alternately called "Whiskey Van," because he could hold his liquor, and "The American Talleyrand" (though Talleyrand was never known as the French Van Buren). We will not discuss Wobbly Willie McKinley or Old Rough and Ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Is Reagan Dutch or O & W? | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

Wylie added that he would rather see public employees facing layoffs because of Proposition 2 1/2 "out on street corners with tin cups an hour a week" than approve a lottery...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City to Consider Municipal Lottery | 11/25/1980 | See Source »

...Barnett, wife of the lord mayor of Leicester, became a celebrity in Britain as a panelist on the BBC's version of What's My Line? Last month Lady Barnett, 62 and widowed ten years, faced a panel herself: a jury considering charges that she shoplifted a tin of tuna and a carton of cream worth about $2. She admitted slipping the items into a cloth bag pinned inside her coat, but insisted it was an oversight, and she told the court the cloth bag was where she kept a flashlight as protection against muggers. Lady Barnett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Pilfering Urges | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...McDonald, who professes vast admiration for R & B luminaries like Marvin Gaye and Sam and Dave as well as tunesmiths like Burt Bachrach, says, "I like to write hits. My biggest reason for writing a song is to have it on the radio. It's kind of a Tin Pan Alley approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dancing down the Middle | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...rings like tin, like the jingle of pennies...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Conjurer of Words | 11/8/1980 | See Source »

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