Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court, would retire at the same time, but Mr. Brandeis was adamant. He would not retire while the Court was under fire. So Mr. Van Devanter retired single-handed,* giving the President opportunity to appoint a liberal in his place. Thus he pulled a second prop from beneath the President's position, for liberals in Congress felt there was still less need for enlarging the Court to insure a liberal majority. Result: the one promising chance of the President's getting his plan approved dwindled until the odds were slightly against it and there was even doubt last...
...pace of the whole performance, from the start of the Procession to the march up the Abbey's aisle, has been prodigiously slow, sedate, the cadence of Empire. King George breaks his tempo when, before being robed in the garments of state and beneath a canopy that screens him from nearly all, he whisks off the red robe that he has been wearing, passes it briskly to the Lord Great Chamberlain, who was supposed to divest him ceremoniously. The Lord Great Chamberlain looks bewildered. Lady Reading, widow of the onetime Viceroy of India, observes: "Like a man handing...
...dear that pale September night when we Had paused beneath McKean Gate to gaze...
...beneath your Chapel's shadow...
Narrowly escaping death when he was pinned beneath his capsized outboard motor boat, Clare L. Milton '39 of Eliot House was rescued yesterday by the Metropolitan Police. He lost several cameras valued...