Word: webster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Early in the play, a Cherokee chieftain heroically saves General Jackson's life at the battle of Horseshoe Bend, but before long, in a scene set in the White House, President Jackson defeathers his old allies, insists on deporting them to Oklahoma despite the eloquent pleas of Daniel Webster and Sam Houston...
...Eighty-seven years have not taught these ladies rudimentary English usage; please see Webster for the difference between temperance and abstinence...
Donated to the White House was furniture once owned by George Washington, James and Dolly Madison, James Monroe, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln. While rummaging through a London antique shop, a committee member found some period wallpaper decorated with Revolutionary War scenes; it will be used to paper Jackie's private dining room. Mrs. Albert Lasker gave the committee a marble bust of George Washington, and a jowly, side-burned bust of Martin Van Buren was discovered in storage. Treasury Secretary and Mrs. Douglas Dillon chipped in with a roomful of Empire furniture including a mahogany...
Died. Daniel Webster Hoan, 80, Socialist mayor of Milwaukee for 24 years of incorruptible efficiency and unprecedented solvency until his defeat in 1940, when the electorate suddenly saw Red, sought an unneeded new broom; of a stroke; in Milwaukee. A dishwasher who later cooked his way through law school, Dan Hoan was a twangy, shotgun orator who restricted his Marxmanship to Labor Day, indulged in class warfare only in 1919, when he declined to play host to King Albert of the Belgians. "I stand for the man who works," proclaimed the mayor of Milwaukee. "To hell with kings...
...other heavy ironies to put in the moral fire, and at book's end, Ethan owns the world of New Baytown but he has, of course, lost his own soul. How does he learn that? He discovers that his son has cribbed from the speeches of Jefferson, Webster, Lincoln and Henry Clay to win a nationwide TV essay contest...