Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, brawny Italian with a conspirator's felt hat last week kissed his wife good-by in suburban Mamaroneck, swung behind the wheel of a Clipper model Packard and drove to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. There he encased himself in the beard and trappings of an ancient czar. Exactly one hour after his arrival, Ezio Pinza, with a regal bearing that scattered stagehands right & left, stubbed out the butt of a lighted cigaret and strode through the wings as Boris Godunoff...
Chairman's Progress. Harrison Spangler has been a stanch Republican wheel horse* all his adult life. Only once did he slip his halter-when he became a Bull Mooser in 1912. He worked up through precinct, county and district jobs to become National Committeeman in 1931. In 1936 he bossed Alf Landon's Chicago headquarters. In 1940 he backed Senator Taft's Presidential aspirations...
...Cryptic note sent out by the Associated Press the night of Spangler's election: "In Spangler background, first graf, read it 'X X X one of those party wheel horses, etc.' (deleting 'ideal...
...shifting, running, behind-the-scenes fight for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, three new "compromise" candidates emerged last week: Iowa's middle-of-the-road National Committeeman Harrison Earl Spangler, a party wheel horse for two decades; Delaware's strawberry-growing ex-Senator John G. Townsend, close friend of Senate G.O.P. Leader Charles McNary; and Missouri's middle-of-the-road National Committeeman Barak Thomas Mattingly, host to the meeting in St. Louis on Dec. 7 at which the chairman will be picked...
...maid Sabina (Tallulah Bankhead) is Lilith, the eternal floozy; their son Henry (Montgomery Clift) is Cain, the eternal Dead-End kid. Their story is the eternal struggle between good & evil, the eternal seesaw of progressing and falling back. Mr. Antrobus comes home excitedly from the office, having invented the wheel and fixed up the alphabet-but the Ice Age has arrived. Next he swaggers fatuously about Atlantic City, backslapping his lodge brothers and falling for a bathing beauty-but the Flood has arrived. Finally he comes home, exhausted, from war-where Henry has been a little Hitler and Sabina...