Word: appeared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...save himself from putting on evening dress nine unnecessary times, Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated the custom of letting the Cabinet give him one big joint dinner. One evening last week the Cabinet solemnly assembled at the Mayflower Hotel to dine their chief. At the appointed time he did not appear. They waited and waited. At the White House Valet Irvin McDuffy was desperately turning the Presidential wardrobe inside out: the President's white pearl vest buttons could not be found. Having stewed for nearly half an hour, the Cabinet finally had the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Roosevelt arrive accompanied...
Above courts of law was exactly where Senator Black promptly declared himself to be. Securing postponement until this week of a hearing on making the Strawn injunction permanent, he arranged for a legal representative of his Committee to appear beside Western Union as "a friend of the court." On the Senate floor he cried: "In my judgment, if any judge ever issued an injunction to prevent the delivery of papers summoned by this body, the Congress should immediately enact legislation taking away that jurisdiction from the courts, for Congress creates the jurisdiction of those courts. If I had any idea...
Most famed native of the Virgin Islands yet to appear on the world scene, Camille Pissarro was born a Danish citizen in 1830. Pissarro's father, a French Jew of Portuguese descent, had done quite well for himself as a hardware dealer on the island of St. Thomas. He sent little Camille to Paris to school, brought him back to the Islands to make an ironmonger of him. Camille Pissarro stuck it out until 1852, when he ran away to Venezuela to become an artist. Three years later he was in Paris and had discovered the painter whom above...
...younger generation in his latest book but reveals a considerably deeper understanding of its problems than he possessed twelve years ago. The picture of youth as 95 percent hairbrained and morally insecure has been washed away and although we find similar characters in the now volume, they appear remarkably better developed...
...with the Varsity, about 18 men are planned to take the trip. Though no very definite line on the Yardlings can be had until they get out of doors, pitchers who appear up in the van at this time are Harold M. Curtiss, Jr., and Harold N. Edinberg...