Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woodrow Wilson was finally accepted as a great man by his old university, not one of whose many empty niches held a memorial to Princeton's most famed alumnus and president. President Harold W. Dodds, accepting a Jo Davidson bust, paid a long-delayed tribute which it is now safe to pay, even in Princeton: "Woodrow Wilson's contribution to Princeton," he said, "has been surpassed by no one in the 200 years of her history...
...days of bustles Earl Wilson would have been called a cad. In these days, 40 newspapers pay around $50,000 a year for his stuff, and 78,426 people have put down $2 to get it in book form (7 Am Gazing into My 8-Ball...
What they seem to like is what Earl Wilson calls the three Bs-Booze, Busts, Behinds. (Sample Wilson leer: Carole Landis looks "like a chiffonier with its top drawer pulled out." Of another buxom girl, he wrote: "only a build in a girdled cage.") What his readers also get, every so often, is some of the most accurately recorded Broadway-and-Sports Americana since the late great Ring Lardner...
Methodist to Madness. At 38, Earl Wilson is a chunky, sad-eyed little (5 ft. 6) fellow with an ear tuned for the casual wisecrack, an eye cocked for the offbeat feature story. The Saloon Editor comes from saloonless Rockford, Ohio, where at twelve he was choreboy for a country weekly, and later taught Methodist Sun-dav school. When he landed...
...party, went so far as to crow: "It isn't just that the Truman honeymoon is over; he's already in the divorce courts. The way he chastised those House committees [in his wage-rise speech] is perhaps the worst blunder of its kind since Wilson called those fellows a 'little group of willful men.' If Truman keeps that up he'll split the Democratic Party wider than it has ever been." The Senator, with traditional party optimism, thought that the G.O.P. could win the 1946 elections...