Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl. He has none of Huey's wild, magnetic appeal. At 53 he is a soft, dumpy man with a mushy voice, a flaccid handshake, a venomous temper and the general bearing of a small-town pool-hall operator. Crowds bother him and he cannot hide a furtive wariness when job seekers approach him. He is a dedicated horseplayer-who makes two dollar bets. But he has the "Long Look" and a shrewd insight into the mind of Louisiana's tobacco-chewing common...
Boars & Lemonade. Hard on his heels, the Republicans' Earl Warren breezed into town followed by 6,000 whooping Republicans who had come down from Chicago in four special trains and twelve buses. Governor Dwight Green had the full treatment ready for Earl: a motorcade of 25 cars, a brass band, a platoon of state troopers, and aerial bombs. The grandstand was packed to overflowing. Warren spoke easily and informally-and for only 18 minutes. The crowd liked him fine...
...late Mrs. Mary Fuller Frazier, wealthy Philadelphia widow whose terror of germs once led her to hire a whole hospital floor to keep other patients at a safe distance, willed more than $1,000,000 for civic improvements to Perryopolis, the sooty little Pennsylvania mining town where she was born...
...things in his quiet walled courtyard: a peng (broad overhead matting) for shade, a goldfish pool for the cool grace of its inmates, and a pomegranate tree for its fruit. With these he can free his mind from such pressing disorders as the occasional boom of cannon outside the town and the runaway inflation inside...
This summer the pleasant pattern for contemplation was threatened. The municipal health department decided to attack the fly and mosquito population by air-spraying the town with DDT solution. Private goldfish fanciers were outraged at the danger to the fish population...