Word: brought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quorum of the Senate is assembled and the Senate is ready to proceed to business." The House membership was instantly convulsed with merriment. Sarcastic laughter rang to the glassed ceiling. Congressmen guffawed wildly, stamped their feet in derision, mockingly applauded. The juxtaposition of the words "Senate" and "business" even brought a smile to the bland face of Speaker Nicholas Longworth as he sat in his high presiding chair with the ornate mace of office fastened to the wall at his right. It was a fine professional joke...
...Washington there was joy aplenty at the prospect of Mr. Morrow in the Senate. Particularly pleased was President Hoover, whose enthusiasm had really brought the Morrow appointment to pass. If a President ever needed in the Senate a friend of the personality and capabilities credited to Mr. Morrow, that President is Herbert Hoover...
...that delicate post until its duties were transferred to a division of protocol in the state department. Attaché Moffat's most important previous diplomatic work was with the U. S. Legation in Warsaw during Soviet Russia's brief attempt to conquer Poland in 1920-days that brought him in touch with Herbert Hoover and Cardinal Achille Ratti, now Pope Pius XI. In a dingy Geneva office, proudly titled the Treaty Registration Room of the League of Nations Secretariat, he carefully signed three state papers, then retired to Berne...
...roared Clydeside John. "When I think of the speeches made at the general election by people [Laborites] around me now, the appeals to the class among whom I was brought up to put their faith in us-when I come here and have to listen to a Minister of Labor telling us she has to steel her heart against a demand for ?50,000 to alleviate the worst form of suffering amidst the poorest of the poor! It makes me almost burst with indignation at the dishonesty of politics...
...Watch and Ward, a long established citizens' vigilance committee, has been prominent in recent Cambridge news through its activity in connection with charges of selling obscene literature brought by the Society against James A. Delacey, manager of the Dunster House Bookshop of South Street, and his assistant, who are now appealing a conviction by the Cambridge District Court...