Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long before this right too is threshed out in the courts. Meantime, however, the Supreme Court had once more demonstrated Mr. Hughes's reverberating dictum: "The Constitution is what the Judges say it is." Last week nearly every lawyer agreed that one afternoon in the Supreme Court Chamber, the interstate commerce clause of the U. S. Constitution had been rewritten and enlarged to include many things which for 149 years past it has never held within its few brief elastic words, to wit: "The Congress shall have Power ... to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations and among the several States...
...tomblike magnificence of the Senate's marble caucus room, the Judiciary Committee played to a full house. Although Chairman Ashurst permitted no smoking, the atmosphere was stuffy with the breath of inquisitive citizens, 300 at a time, packed in their half of the chamber, unable to see over one another's heads, but catching what they could from the cackling of the loudspeakers up among the marble pillars...
Byrnes Bomb. Late one afternoon the Senate sat placidly putting the finishing touches on the revised Guffey Coal Bill. Passage within ten minutes seemed assured, and contented Senators' minds were beginning to turn to thoughts of cold drinks and warm supper. In their snug, thick-carpeted little chamber, the storm & strife of tear gas and window-smashings, of roaring, club-waving mass resistance to the Law, seemed pleasantly far away. Day before the Guffey bill windup, New York's New Dealing Robert F. Wagner had presented what was believed to be the Administration viewpoint when he rose...
...school, organist at New York's Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, conductor of Philadelphia's Eurydice and Orpheus Clubs, conductor of the New Haven Symphony. By juggling his appointments, rehearsals, classes, Parker managed to carry a prodigiously heavy schedule. He still found time to write odes, masques, chamber music, organ-pieces, ballads, overtures, sonatas, cantatas, two operas. But he never equaled his early Hora Novissima. At 56, rheumatic and overworked, Parker wrote A.D. 1919 as a memorial to Yalemen killed in the War, died soon after...
...been. But in the 12-ft. square workroom, whose old-fashioned uncurtained windows overlook a half-acre of English garden, she has made a world of her own. It is not a cork-lined invalid's retreat like Marcel Proust's, with the shades drawn; nor a chamber of nightmares like James Joyce's, where after dark all the familiar objects break up into strange & sinister shapes. Visitors who feel at home in Virginia Woolfs world say it is a room with a view...