Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lily Pons sang the Star-Spangled Banner. Protestant Episcopal Bishop Francis Marion Taitt pronounced a prayer. Senator Pat Harrison announced to Mr. Garner his renomination as Vice President. The Vice President answered in a brief speech of psalmodic inspiration...
...seconding Nominee Landon, Showman Farley had arranged for every state to second Roosevelt's renomination. That meant 48 speeches plus nine more from non-voting areas. It meant more than eight hours of fervid oratory in praise of Franklin Roosevelt. Toward midnight Chairman Robinson requested speakers to be brief but West Virginia's Senator Neely insisted on delivering a full-length speech, to which no one listened. Governor General Frank Murphy of the Philippines did his duty in ten words: "The Philippine Islands gratefully second the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt." At 12:42 a.m., two minutes after...
...together, the Presbyterian Constitutional Covenant Union which was formed last year to "reform" the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. It then reorganized as the Presbyterian Church of America, with John Gresham Machen elected by acclamation as first moderator. Sitting as a General Assembly, the gathering adopted a brief declaration of faith, vested in a committee the power to ordain ministers...
...York City alone there are 41,470 elevators-more than the total on any continent except North America. Every day they travel 100,000 miles, lift and lower 15,000,000 passengers-twice the number carried by all other New York transport systems combined. Very rarely there is a brief delay through mechanical error. Much more rarely is there an accident. In 1934, last year for which figures are available, there were 96 elevator accidents in Manhattan. The ratio: one death for every 196,000,000 passengers: one injury for every...
...city that awakened in the autumn, when "the shops were slices of honeycomb full of honey" and when "the boys came from far places with cardboard suitcases." He describes the winters filled with memories of bad colds, of policemen with faces like blue meat, of "overcoatless men;" the brief spring, the hot summers when the poor lay out on fire-escapes "and the child cried thinly and endlessly." But Poet Benét admits he cannot explain the city or its society to future cornerstone riflers, and to serious readers his apostrophe may sound a little hollow...