Word: barse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the closing hours, Louisiana's 57-year-old Allen Ellender hung up a filibuster record by mumbling for twelve hours 20 minutes, the longest time any Senator had ever talked without relief. "I underwent a dehydration process for two days before I spoke," the Senator explained with the...
First there were crashes and shorts from the Orchestra. Little men kept fitting offstage to play a few bars in the wings. Gradually the din dropped to a murmur. Then it happened:
There was an angry stir in the crowds. Someone yelled that a U.S. sailor had urinated on the head of Cuba's hero. A band of students, hearing the uproar, rushed over, grabbed glasses and bottles from bars, bombarded the stranded bluejackets. Only fast police work saved the sailors...
Sylvia is an annoyance to her more conventional fellow ticket brokers. Last week some of them planned an appeal to the League of New York Theaters to outlaw her club because, they argued, she was violating the ticket code's ban on large purchases of seats in advance of...
It remained staunchly Democratic after Congressman Charles Creighton Carlin Sr., of Alexandria, who had worked briefly as a reporter on the Gazette, bought it in 1911 from the Snowden heirs. Now Editor C. C. Carlin Jr., 49, the courtly, conservative son of the late Congressman, runs the Gazette in the...