Word: warren
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...dropped to the floor, grabbing children, rolling behind columns, trying to get smaller. Weston came to a door marked PRIVATE: DO NOT ENTER. It was the back door to House majority whip Tom DeLay's suite, the door staff members use to slip in and out of the warren of offices...
...Heartened by their animal experiments, in which flaps of bone, tendon and muscle were attached to young pigs for up to three months, the doctors convinced their review boards at the University of Louisville and Jewish Hospital that a hand transplant was, as the team's chief surgeon, Dr. Warren C. Breidenbach of Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center, put it, "the next logical step...
...INVITED You have to be a man, and officially you have to be a member of the Bohemian Club or a guest of one. Past members have included Mark Twain, Jack London, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Herbert Hoover and Earl Warren...
...199th page of Florence Harding (William Morrow; 645 pages; $30), Carl Sferrazza Anthony's comprehensively documented biography of America's 29th First Lady, her husband Warren, now running for President, has already fallen into a reckless affair with Mrs. Harding's friend Carrie Phillips, trysted with a female Senate aide, ogled nude, frolicking teenage girls on a farm in Ohio, and sired two illegitimate children--one of them conceived in his Senate office with a woman 32 years his junior. It is with some amusement, then, that the reader at this point in the book finds a chapter titled "Women...
...this might suggest, Florence Harding is less a deconstruction of this First Lady's tastes and thinking than it is a titillating--and unquestionably entertaining--look at an early 20th century political marriage devoid of a mundane moment. Warren Harding, who died of heart failure in his second year as President in 1923, ran the country during a time of baroque corruption and excess that the book also engagingly chronicles. Like the current occupant of the White House, he seemed incapable of economizing on his affections for women or on following his wants cautiously. Among the previously unpublished records featured...