Word: usher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exclusion of any first-rate author but Cooper perhaps overdoes a good thing. Precisely because the Southern Cavalier so closely resembled the Romantic hero--doomed, indecisive, in love with decay--it is a shame that Taylor does no more than mention Poe (in a casual reference to Roderick Usher) and the lesser-known Southern Gothics...
...usher in the lobby, a frowsy little thing, was disconcerted by the suppressed violence in the man's voice when he asked "to have a few words, please, with the projection man." She led us to him hesitantly. His chair was tilted against the back wall of the projection room. He was reading Little Lulu...
...Friend George Smathers who drew most of the anger of White House aides for his anti-medicare vote, since he was an usher at Kennedy's wedding, is Democratic conference secretary, yet repeatedly votes against Kennedy on key issues ("He hasn't stood up for Jack since the wedding," goes a White House wisecrack). Heavy pressure had been exerted to capture Senator Randolph's decisive vote, including a telephone call from Kennedy himself. It all failed-and apparently because Randolph was indebted to Kerr for amending a welfare bill so that hard-pressed West Virginia could receive...
...labor's support of the Bill is not a fair standard in judging their feelings about it; it is possible to favor the Bill, and still have serious doubts that it will usher in the Golden Age of American Labor the President predicts. That, Indeed, I take to be labor's position; and, for all the good it does labor, its feelings and mine coincide on this point. Union leaders must wonder, as I do, why the major place of economic legislation proposed by the President has only so tenuous a bearing on the country's major economic...
Married. Edward ("Kookie") Byrnes, 28, jive-talking junior shamus of TV's 77 Sunset Strip; and Alabama-born Cinema Starlet Asa Maynor, 24; at Beverly Hills' All Saints' Episcopal Church, with Sunset Strip Colleagues Roger Smith and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as best man and usher...