Word: websterisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...illegitimate daughters, aged 6 and 2. CJ John Tyler was nominated for Vice President (1840) by the Whigs because, as a Jeffersonian, he was a nuisance to them in the Senate. A month after he was inaugurated, Tyler was playing marbles in a Williamsburg street when Daniel Webster's son brought him the news that President William Henry Harrison was dead of pneumonia. Tyler picked up his marbles, went to Washington, became a better...
...Astoria, Pillsbury Mills last week gathered 100 cooking champions to compete for more than $125,000 in prizes in its Grand National Bake-Off. Each was allowed a day to whip up a favorite recipe. The winner of the $25,000 first prize: Mrs. Bernard Kanago, wife of a Webster (S. Dak.) paperhanger. Her prizewinning concoction: My Inspiration Cake.* Mrs. Kanago, whose hobby is cooking, said that "the recipe just came out of nowhere...
Stevens, a stony-faced, crippled son of a Vermont village shoemaker, was the crude but effective pleader for the Negro in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sumner, a master orator who succeeded Daniel Webster in the U.S. Senate, carried the Negro's banner there. They were the spiritual leaders of the "Radical Republicans," whose pro-Negro stand was far beyond that of Abraham Lincoln. In 1866, when President Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill to expand the Freedmen's Bureau (an agency to aid and educate former slaves), Stevens rose in the House and called the North Carolina-born...
...Jugular. In Daniel Webster's more leisurely time, the great case of McCulloch v. Maryland consumed six days of argument; today counsel are ordinarily confined to an "hour apiece. For Davis, therefore, Webster's first principle of argumentation is more important than ever: "The power of clear statement is the great power at the bar." In front of him, Davis spreads out the "record on appeal," and the "briefs" (written arguments, hammered out by other lawyers in his firm and submitted to the court in advance). Davis has prepared no full-length script, no memorized remarks-just...
...Editor Fox hide behind the Merriam-Webster dictionary on the ground that his answer might tend to incinerate him? William H. McMasters, Cambridge, Mass...