Word: usher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Usher Moren's "II Vecchio" is such a fine parody of Hemingway that it is a shame Mr. Moren intended it as a serious story. A situation in which three barbers mourn the fate of a fourth whom age has forced back to the last chair in the shop is a true parody of all Hemingway's aging bullfighters and fishermen, especially when Mr. Moren has someone say, "He is an old man and cuts well and it is truly a terrible thing...
...Bulls & a Bank Roll. While the final vote was overwhelming (223-113 in the House, a shouted voice vote in the Senate), the Congressmen acted only after hearing some caustic words about their own worth. The sharpest comments came from North Dakota's sharp old (76) Republican Representative Usher L. (for Loyd) Burdick, a lawyer, rancher, collector of rare books and a Congressman for 16 years.' In the first place, said Burdick, some of his colleagues were not being honest when they called their present salary $12,500 a year, and failed to mention their...
Five Trips & a Kitty. The Congress refused to go the way Usher pointed, but it did heed the signal of another old hand. In the final stages, the bill still contained a provision for a tax-free special-expense account of $1,250 and an allowance for five extra round trips home every year. Just as the Senate was about to rush the bill through, Kentucky's Democratic Senator Alben Barkley rose to make his first speech since he returned to the Senate this year. In five minutes, Barkley made his point clear: These "petty, extraneous" provisions were...
...annual round of House Christmas celebrations begins tonight. Before vacation, all seven Houses will present plays and dinners to usher in the holidays...
Leading the group was Cadet Col. Daniel A. Kavanaugh. Others were: Douglas K. Boyd, Thomas Campbell, Sidney L. Cimmet, Robert J. Donahue, Carl A. Goldman, Richard E. Goldsmith, Michael Lay, John W. McNealy II, David W. Maher, Usher A. Moren, George M. Notter, Jr., Howard P. Smith, and Robert B. Stimpson...