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Stating that "no party can claim a monopoly on political virtue," DeSapio said "any representations to the contrary are insults to the public intelligence." He pointed to Teapot Dome as an example of Republican corruption, paralleling the Tweed ring in New York...
...lovely shoulders but no chest. Grace is like Bergman in the 'clean' way. She can do that smush stuff in movies like-remember all those little kisses in Rear Window?-and get away with it." A friend remembers her at this period as "terribly sedate, always wore tweed suits and a hat-with-a-veil kind of thing. She had any number of sensible shoes, even some with those awful flaps on front." She did TV commercials ("I was terrible-honestly, anyone watching me give the pitch for Old Golds would have switched to Camels"), doggedly made...
...might not have been out of place to record a truly remarkable fact concerning three men of outstanding achievement in 20th-century science: John Logic Baird in television, Sir Robert Watson-Watt in radar, and Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin. All were born and bred north of the Tweed. This makes them British, but never English...
Boss William Tweed (1860-71) and his henchmen had fleeced New Yorkers of some $200 million while he was Tammany's head. Boss Richard Croker (1886-1901) continued the Tammany rule that Lincoln Steffens described as "government of the people, by the rascals, for the rich." Boss Charles Murphy was the last successful leader of the old Tammany. When
...honor, Scots hate to admit it. They profess grave doubt that their 1707 union with England is a good thing. They bristle at small slights. It rankles that some English ministries call their Scotland representatives "Regional Controllers," that the Festival of Britain brochures chopped off Scotland at the Tweed, that the English refuse to admit that Queen Elizabeth is only Elizabeth I in Scotland and coronation posters trace her lineage from the first Queen Elizabeth -"meaning she's directly descended exclusively from a virgin queen, I suppose," said one Scot scornfully. "No mention of Mary, Queen of Scots...