Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fans droned listlessly in the court room next day as Magistrate Malbin directed Jensen to choose a seat among 40 spectators, called Happy Kid Allen into the chamber...
...green leather armchair, at a walnut desk with a green glass top. He rose, blushing with pride, and declared: "We're certainly grateful to the Republicans for all of this." As the newshawks gaped, his pride overcame him. "Look at the bathroom!" he exclaimed. It was such a chamber as only ladies of the cinema bathe in. The rites of house-warming were later transferred to the tenth floor of the Raleigh Hotel across the street-where the number of the guests consuming scotch and soda, rye and bourbon, cocktails and sandwiches, mysteriously doubled. In Manhattan two days later...
...harvest moon, the round face of Tory Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill rose in the House of Commons seven weeks ago to demand a parliamentary investigation. To wreck the Indian Reform Bill he had counted heavily on a report of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on Japanese dumping and the fall of British cotton exports to India. The final report was mild as milk. Tory Churchill roundly insisted that it had been changed from its original draft after the Manchester cotton men had been feted, fed & flattered by Sir Samuel Hoare. a Secretary of State for India, and Lord Derby...
...hours later in the chamber above the restaurant, Representative Braswell Deen of Georgia tried to yank back into his seat another Democrat who had risen to vote with Republicans. Republican Ralph Eltse of California leaped across the aisle, flung Mr. Deen roughly into another seat. The Georgian rose and doubled up his fists. The Californian raised his hands defensively. The sergeant-at-arms scurried up the aisle and escorted Mr. Deen from the chamber...
...become Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and later Empress of India. Thus did Britain become an Empire. Last week on Victoria's birthday Britain and her Commonwealth of Nations celebrated Empire Day. ¶ In Ottawa, Canada's Premier Bennett raised his voice to tell a Canadian Chamber of Commerce luncheon in London by wireless telephone: "All our ideas of Empire have changed except that of devoted allegiance to the Crown.'' ¶ In Cape Town, General Jan Christiaan Smuts declared: ''Secession from the Empire is as dead as a dodo." ¶ In Britain, George...