Byrnes Returns to Politics in South Carolina Race
James F. Byrnes, age 70, likely to be nominated by Democrats for South Carolina governor in the July 11 primary, aiming to win the November election. The veteran figure, former congressman, senator, Supreme Court member, and secretary of state, positions himself against federal expansion and defends a centrist stance.
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Jack Bell
Washington
South Carolina
Truman
James F. Byrnes
Democratic Party
Byrnes
House of Representatives
U. S
Supreme Court
Brynes
Jimmy
Union
Poretaste Byrnes
Senate
Jimmie
Roosevelt
White House
Paris
Naval Hospital
Brutus
Brute
Julius Ceasar
Burtus
Ceasar
States’ Rights Party
J. Strom Thurmond
Congress
Jimmy Byrnes
Names that mark a thousand meanings in daily life
The piece surveys how names shape we use terms from history and culture. It cites a book A Dictionary of Work Makers and traces eponymous origins from Big Ben to guillotine and Tam o Shanter, linking famous names to everyday objects and phrases. It notes performances by Kullman and Rise Stevens and mentions a National Geographic Society note about Tibet and China.
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New York
Barnum
Casanova
Nero
Jezebel
Hercules
Goliath
Cecil Hunt
Philosophical Library
Big Ben
Benjamin Hall
Parliament Tower
Gabriel Daniel
London
Sir Robert Peel
Sherlock Holmes
Martinet
Jean Martinet
Louis XVI
Sam Browne
Samuel Browne
V. C
Second Punjab Cavalry
Ab Ham
Henry Peter Brougham
Joseph Aloysius
Phaeton
Helois
Robert
James
Thomas
Sheraton
Josiah
Wedgewood
Doiley
Doyley
Etienne de
Silhouette
Charles Cunningham
Pierce
Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Sadler
Amelia
Bloomers
Earl
Cardigan
San Pantaleone
Burns
Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel
D’orsay
Sir George
Downing Street
Joseph Ignace Guillotin
Mausolus of
Caria
Halicarnassus
Tox
Charles Kullman
Met
Moonlight Bay
Charles Totuchette
Pops Brag Ag
Vienna Pharlharmonic
Erich Kleiber
Berlin Philharmonic
Kleiber
Kern
Romberg
Strauss
Merrill
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George Marshall
China
Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee
W. G. Rogers
Associated Press Arts Reporter
National Geographic Society
Tibet
Gabardine
Rayon
Fabric Department
Gossard Longlyne