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Word: veep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1949-1949
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Meanwhile Mrs. Barkley dropped in at the Metropolitan Opera in a bare-shouldered black evening dress that prompted the Daily News to headline: MRS. VP'S STRAPLESS GOWN KO'S TOWN. Visiting backstage after the Veep rejoined her, she obligingly posed for cameramen and confided to Tristan und Isolde Stars Helen Traubel and Lauritz Melchior: "What the boys want is some Hollywood cheesecake from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...private handholding. But the groom's suave old politician's charm delighted newsmen, and the bride's trousseau enchanted the photographers. Arriving from their "Shangrila" retreat in Sea Island, Ga., they went their own ways for a while on their first night in town. The Veep showed up at a stag dinner of thoroughbred racers and wowed both the turfmen and the television audience by remarking: "In order to be here I interrupted one of the loveliest honeymoons in which I have ever indulged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...next night the Veep spoke to some 2,500 bigwig Democrats at a fund-raising dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. (Estimated net take for the Democratic National Committee: $300,000.) On the enchanted evening when the honeymooners got around to seeing South Pacific, they literally stopped the show. Entering the theater a few minutes late, they got a rousing ovation from both cast and audience. The next day they were off to a home-cooked dinner in their Washington apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Then the newlyweds climbed into the shiny black Oldsmobile convertible which Barkley had given his bride as a wedding present, and headed for Barkley's old Kentucky home (The Angles) and points south. They would be back in Washington, said the Veep, in time for the second session of the 81st Congress. In the meantime, "We are just going to strike out, stop when we please, where we please. Where we are going may not be a military secret, but it's a romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: That's the American People | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Married. Vice President Alben William ("Veep") Barkley, 71, and Mrs. Carleton Sturtevant Hadley, 38; both for the second time; in St. Louis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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