Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cantor, wife of pop-eyed Eddie, was scared pop-eyed but only "slightly injured" in a three-part auto accident: the Cantor car was first struck by a furniture van, then kettle-drummed by 40 bales of hay toppling from a truck...
...better. Now Greasy Neale has a talented team that can make his own highly refined T tick. Weak only at the ends, it boasts an undeniable line ribbed with two All Americas, 215-lb. Tackle Al Wistert (ex-Michigan) and 220-lb. Guard Bob Suffridge (Tennessee). Redheaded Steve Van Buren (Louisiana State), who breaks ten seconds for 100 yards, stops on a dime, runs either around or over a tackler with his 207 lbs., is perhaps the best halfback in the game. Quarterback Roy Zimmerman (San Jose State) makes the club click...
...social forces that broke the Federalists and the power of the "mercantile classes" and made Old Hickory President were the same kind of forces that made the New Deal powerful. (The COMMON MAN reversed his field when Old Hickory bequeathed him an executive successor in the form of Martin Van Buren, the Harry S. Truman of the time...
There was C. C. Cambreleng, "the crony of Van Buren"; Roger B. ("Dred Scott") Taney, "the spearhead of radicalism in the new cabinet" ("a tall sharp-faced man, with irregular yellow teeth, generally clamped on a long black cigar, he made a bad first impression," but his reasoning and his conviction won him friends). There was Amos Kendall, the Harry Hopkins of the age ("his chronic bad health may have created a special bond with the President, and Jackson soon began to rely on Kendall for aid in writing his messages. . . . Gradually, Kendall's supreme skill in interpreting, verbalizing...
...years old, he decided to be a musician. For six years he worked hard at piano, musical theory and composition, but an ear infection made him too deaf to go on with it. At 17, he went to Paris to study art and slavishly imitated his teachers, Van Dongen and Modigliani. Back home he discovered and concentrated on Guatemalan folk themes, spearheading the racial art movement which revolutionized Latin American painting. Later he went abstract, tried to paint a kind of visual music which would be empty of pictorial meaning, but beautifully composed and rich in color harmonies...