Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up." You could not get away with that today, even if you thought of it, because nations are as touchy as individuals. Then, too, no one wields real criticism any more. In 1905 Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession was hailed by the New York Sun as "a dramatized stench"; now it would be "fun for the entire family...
...Warren E. Upton...
...OHIO GANG: THE WORLD OF WARREN G. HARDING by Charles L. Mee Jr. Evans; 248 pages...
...scene is the Oval Office of the White House, where Warren Gamaliel Harding is talking to a newspaper columnist. The eminent man says: "Oftentimes, as I sit here, I don't seem to grasp that I am President." The statement is too good not to be true. In fact, the entire Harding Administration is a humorist's despair; at a certain point, venality and incompetence simply transcend parody. Historian Charles L. Mee Jr. understands this. His brisk, hilarious retelling of the Harding saga resembles a series of blackout sketches. Facts are trotted out quickly, to speak and bray...
...genuinely amiable man, Harding rose swiftly in Ohio politics through his unswerving devotion to whatever his G.O.P. bosses wanted at the moment. He was nominated for the presidency in 1920 because the warring pols could not settle on any of the leading contenders. One Senator explained: "Warren Harding is the best of the second-raters." Disillusioned by the war and weary of Woodrow Wilson's high-road crusading, the voters overwhelmingly elected Harding. In the White House, he inaugurated twice-weekly poker games in the library and found a secluded closet for trysts with his mistress...