Word: armful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than Speaker Byrns descended from the rostrum and proceeded to read the House a lecture on time-wasting. He warned members that important bills were coming up, that they had no right to "adjourn as we did yesterday at 4:15 in the afternoon." With emphatic swings of his arm he declared...
...will deny that the tradition of lynch law is the most disfiguring scab on the face of the United States. It comes with the moronic level of intelligence of an infuriated mob. Slow education in reverence for legal procedure can alone remove the curse. A self-righteous and strong-arm policy on the part of the Washington government can have no other outcome than inflaming an already irritated section of the country. There are already encouraging indications of the Costigan-Wagner bill floundering under the weight of its own quixotism...
...color were made in 1927-28 by Dr. Lawrence Redway of New York. The machine in use at the present time was built by Carl Zeiss in Germany on Dr. Redway's design. A special camera that takes a 4 1/2s6cm. Alga color plate stands on a vertical arm. It is franked by two light sources and in front of it is a chin rest for the subject. The lens is an F: 4.5. The two main modifications that have been made from the original plans are the substitution of incandescent light for are light and the increase...
...Speaker's other arm is Lewis Deschler. "Lew" Deschler is neither a Democrat nor a Representative. He is a young, black-haired Republican who was brought to the House by Speaker Longworth. He sits below and at the right of the Speaker, playing the role of House Parliamentarian. Regardless of politics, he holds his job because he is able to advise the Speaker how to dissolve parliamentary tangles as the Administration wishes them dissolved. He shies at photographers and blushes when he talks but is one of the most important people in the House, the brains which make...
...Roosevelt's two eldest sons, Theodore III and Cornelius, did not see a truck stalled by the roadside at Shrewsbury, Mass. With Theodore driving the family station wagon, they crashed into the truck, demolished their car, crawled out with nothing worse than cuts, bruises and a broken right arm for Cornelius...