Word: woodley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hull's assistant and Lima Conference companion, fox-faced Adolf Berle, now occupies the Stimson Washington mansion of Woodley, where Mr. Hull plays croquet weekly. The mild-mannered Secretary, one of the world's most fluent monotone cussers, addresses his opponent's croquet balls (if people have heard him right), saying: "Hitler, you son-of-a-bitch," and "Mussolini, damn you!" before whanging them into Coventry...
GREAT LEVELER - Thomas Frederick Woodley-Stackpole ($3.50). Cautious mud-removal job on "the most despicable, malevolent and morally deformed character who has ever risen to high power in America," clubfooted, sardonic, bachelor Thaddeus Stevens, Lincoln's powerful House whip, hard-bitten champion of the Reconstruction Act, the 14th Amendment, Andrew Johnson's impeachment...
...Army schoolmaster during the War when faulty eyesight barred him from active service. After the War, he learned the publishing business thoroughly with the Ernest Benn tradepapers, branched out on his own in 1927. First Gollancz book was John Van Druten's poignant public-school play, Young Woodley. First Gollancz success was another play of public-school heroics...
...polished William Phillips has many friends but few close ones. In spite of a good sense of humor, he is so cautious and deliberate in his choice of words that he supplies his small world with few bons mots. Iron Man. Occasionally on a sunny afternoon passersby before Woodley, the Washington estate of onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, see a curious sight. On the lawn Host Stimson, the well-born Manhattan
President, Philip S. deQ. Cabot, coach of the Harvard team; vice-presidents, Edward T. Dickinson, formerly of Yale and now of the New York Rugby Club; George U. Harvey; secretary, Albert Woodley, of the New York Rugby Club; treasurer, Lawrence Bogert, formerly of Yale...