Word: bulles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Also to his feet sprang William L. Hutcheson, A. F. of L. vice president and head of the carpenters' union, to raise a point of order on the ground that the convention had already agreed to deny such charters. "Is the delegate impugning my motives?" thundered the beefy, bull-necked leader of 400,000 United Mine Workers. Belligerently Mr. Lewis stomped down the aisle to Mr. Hutcheson, tapped him menacingly on the shoulder, shouted something about "mighty small potatoes." Bystanders heard Mr. Hutcheson call Mr. Lewis a fighting phrase. Miner Lewis smacked his fist into the Hutcheson face. Carpenter...
...afternoon of the Maisonette's opening, the Rev. Vasily Kurdiumoff, portly, bull-voiced rector of the Russian Orthodox Church of Jesus Christ the Savior, went down to the St. Regis, put on his ceremonial blue brocade riza. Assisted by the conductor of his choir, General Sergey Savitzky, he chanted prayers before an improvised altar on which ten candles illuminated an ikon. Then Priest Kurdiumoff presented a loaf of bread and a small silver salt cellar to Mrs. Anne Tiffany, decorator, and to Mrs. Vincent Astor. whose husband owns the hotel. Up to the priest, one by one, filed Russian...
...elected annually from the heads of colleges and who presides over the senate; the lecturers and demonstrators; and the proctors. These lost are three in number, and they patrol the streets in turn, night by night, dressed in cap, gown, and white tie, and accompanied by the bull-dogs-sturdy college porters in top hats. They look out for drunk or gownless undergraduates, visit prescribed haunts, and take the names of law-breakers. The proctor's first question is: "Are you a member of this University, sir?" Should an undergraduate hope to escape by answering no, and should...
CHARLES C. BULL Los Angeles, Calif...
This was exact. Stanley Baldwin, cutting exactly the figure of John Bull, sounds the note most appealing to Britain's masses, and even when he has bumbled-usually in foreign policy-his air of wisdom, serenity and candor keep him as popular as his evil-smelling briar pipe. To the convention of his Party last week Leader Baldwin promised...