Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at tolson.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Tolson.
Examples
-
Although Negroes overwhelmingly rejected Marxism then and now, the few that embraced it, such as Tolson, did so largely because the Great Depression revealed tragic flaws of unbridled capitalism and they sought a better system to ameliorate the lot of the underclass.
Arguably, "The Great Debaters" Ranks With Greatest American Movies 2007
-
At the very center of the show in the front row (pictured below): Vogue Editor Ana Wintour seated next to Susan Tolson, wife of Charlie Rivkin, U.S. Ambassador to France.
Linda Grasso: Paris Fashion Week -- Getting a Coveted Seat to Chanel: Couture, Celebrity & Chaos Linda Grasso 2010
-
Information about the writer was monitored by the FBI's highest echelons, including one-time acting director Mark Felt, best known as Deep Throat, and associate director Clyde Tolson.
NYCity News Service: FBI Files: Solzhenitsyn Lived in Fear After Exile NYCity News Service 2010
-
At the very same time, the movie offers a love story in which the hero struggles with his sexuality, and with his supposedly closeted love—if there was a closet it stayed tightly shut, so most of the script's sexual content is conjecture—for Clyde Tolson, the FBI agent who came to be known as Hoover's constant companion.
'J. Edgar': Hoover's Life, in a Dramatic Vacuum Joe Morgenstern 2011
-
At the very center of the show in the front row (pictured below): Vogue Editor Ana Wintour seated next to Susan Tolson, wife of Charlie Rivkin, U.S. Ambassador to France.
Linda Grasso: Paris Fashion Week -- Getting a Coveted Seat to Chanel: Couture, Celebrity & Chaos Linda Grasso 2010
-
Hoover's deepening, marriage-like relationship with his hand-reared assistant director Clyde Tolson is intercut with glimpses of canned history – the Palmer raids, the slandering of Dr King, the compromising private files … But no Joe McCarthy nor his ruthless chief counsel Roy Cohn, not enough Nixon and no substantial mention of Cointelpro, the pharaonic, black-propaganda campaign against 1960s civil rights workers and the student left.
-
“Mr. Tolson shoplifted another Snickers bar today,” Dad would say, piling his plate high with mashed potatoes and chicken breasts as he recounted his day at the small general store he and my mom owned.
Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011
-
At the very center of the show in the front row (pictured below): Vogue Editor Ana Wintour seated next to Susan Tolson, wife of Charlie Rivkin, U.S. Ambassador to France.
Linda Grasso: Paris Fashion Week -- Getting a Coveted Seat to Chanel: Couture, Celebrity & Chaos Linda Grasso 2010
-
Eastwood confirmed last week that Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play the legendary FBI director, but the role of Hoover's companion Clyde Tolson is still up for grabs.
Clint Eastwood and Leon Panetta's semi-secret CIA dinner The Reliable Source 2010
-
At the very center of the show in the front row (pictured below): Vogue Editor Ana Wintour seated next to Susan Tolson, wife of Charlie Rivkin, U.S. Ambassador to France.
Linda Grasso: Paris Fashion Week -- Getting a Coveted Seat to Chanel: Couture, Celebrity & Chaos Linda Grasso 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.