Word: wolcott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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JAMES L. SPENCER JR. WOLCOTT ELY ROBIN W. GRAY EUGENE C. RICE Lieutenants, U.S.A.A.F. % Postmaster San Francisco...
...brief introduction Wolcott Gibbs pays a toastmaster's tribute to John O'Hara's remarkably accurate ear, to his clear perception of the difference between satire and burlesque, to his characters who, though they are "great ones for clichés, which they usually get just a little wrong," are never caricatures. O'Hara's virtue, says Gibbs, is that he is thoroughly at home an the varied worlds between 52nd Street and Hollywood Boulevard, in one of which "every lady is a tramp and every man an enemy," and in another, "it is possible...
...Against It." He had left the school in charge of furtive, soft-voiced John K. Wolcott, a 61-year-old chaplain-teacher. He had no help except a young teacher named Robert Newton. Last week the Reverend Mr. Wolcott, who has worked for Duncan for years but says he has not been paid since last spring, offered feeble excuses for the lack of sheets ("It's too cold for sheets"), the lack of heat ("There's no law you have to keep a school piping hot"), the single dining-study-play room ("I don't think there...
...assumed, that they could also have meant butter, meat and milk. Congress may not take away the powers he has assumed −a two-thirds vote will be needed. But by simple majority vote, they may well reduce those powers. Already the Farm Bloc's Jesse P. Wolcott, Republican, of Port Huron, Mich., was loading up a blunderbuss to blow holes in price control...
...Rock-ribbed Republican Jesse Wolcott had little to fear in the way of questioning from his rock-ribbed Republican constituency on Michigan's Thumb. The Thumb's thrifty sugar-beet and dairy farmers sent Jesse Wolcott back to Congress even in the 1932 Roosevelt landslide. He knows they are disgusted with the Administration's handling of the home front. His constituents, he learned, take for granted that Franklin Roosevelt will run for a Fourth Term and they will vote against him, no matter how the war is going. In his talks to luncheon clubs and his chats...