Word: toms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said of him that he would respond sensibly to Tom Dewey's lofty speeches. Apparently he had been just as bored as he had looked, and not a little annoyed by Dewey's calm assumption that the result was in the bag. It was said of 'him that he only went in droves to hear Harry Truman because Harry Truman put on a good show. But politics is a show. Harry Truman, with his mistakes and his impulses and his earnestness, had turned out to be an interesting personality. He had often ranted like a demagogue...
...barber, had a shave and a hair trim. He put on a fresh white shirt and a double-breasted blue suit. The news came to him in a shout which he heard through the closed door of his sitting room. Newsmen had just got the flash of Tom Dewey's concession. A few minutes later the President invited the newsmen into his parlor. As each came by he shook hands and said, "Thank you, thank you." Harry Truman's palm was moist, and behind the thick glasses, tears rimmed his eyes...
...with the grey gloom of a misty November day outside the windows, Tom Dewey and his wife went to bed. At 10:30, Brownell woke him with the bitter news. Ohio was gone...
Last Call. Gradually a crawling uncertainty seized the Hotel Roosevelt. Up in the candidate's suite, Dewey smoked one Marlboro cigarette after another in his aluminum holder. Young John fell asleep. At midnight, his brother Tom was sent to bed. In the ballroom people started to trickle out. An elevator operator asked if it were true that they were stretching nets outside Dewey's windows. In a gallant effort, a Dewey worker shouted defiantly: "Are we downhearted?" Faintly, the crowd denied...
Tallulah Bankhead, who regards Tom Dewey as "a phony ham actor," but thinks Harry Truman "a wonderful little man," did some hamming of her own at a Manhattan rally, in the famed, florid Bankhead manner...