Word: bloomingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Jack Barnaby's Varsity tennis team went down to a 5 to 1 defeat last Saturday afternoon at the hands of the powerful Pennsylvania team, Orme Wilson, beating Leo Bloom in the number five singles, accounted for the sole Crimson point as a sudden thunder storm cancelled all the doubles...
...discuss with Mr. Roosevelt H.R. 1776, the Lend-Lease Bill (see p. 17). In the comfortable room at the White House, the argument came down to the kind of simple talk any U. S. citizen could understand. Present were Speaker Rayburn, Senators Barkley and George, and Congressmen MacCormack, Bloom and Luther Johnson - and the two Republican leaders: Senator McNary and Congressman Joe Martin. The dialogue was almost as simple as this : Joe Martin: What's your objective, Mr.President - what do you want...
Before 10 a.m. the big committee room was crowded. Behind the horseshoe desk, puffing reflective pipes, cigarets, or gnawing at cigars, sat 23 members of the 25-man House Foreign Affairs Committee; in the middle of the curve crouched little Sol Bloom, chairman, looking like a Neanderthal man dressed up in clothes. Facing him were small tables and chairs-for witnesses and their staffs. In the well squatted photographers, fidgeting with flash bulbs. Sitting in every seat, almost as visibly present as the Congressmen, spectators, Capitol policemen, messengers, newsreel cameramen, were tensions, anxieties, fears, great expectations. The bill before...
Into the room came the first witness, a slender man whose shoulders stooped with 69 years, striding gravely in a worn, shiny blue serge suit, his hair silvery-white, his face pale as candle wax, his brown eyes a little sharp under his salt-&-pepper eyebrows. Little Sol Bloom scrambled down from his eminence to be photographed with Secretary of State Hull. Mr. Hull sat down, began to read his prepared statement, his long pale hands trembling slightly...
...coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. Now the Southern Democrats are interventionist almost to a man and Republicans are hopelessly split. Isolationist Senators Wheeler, Taft, Nye and Clark might filibuster; House isolationists might balk-but two men held all the cards this week: 1) prognathous, gnomish Representative Sol Bloom of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; 2) austere, pompous Senator Walter George of Georgia, his opposite number in the Senate...