Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author is not content with mere depiction, however; he has a truly modern conscience, which he insists on venting conscience, which he insists on venting whenever the slightest occasion offers itself. At the beginning he makes it clear that the Victorians were building their house upon sand; he spectre of the unleashed machine haunts him as it did Henry Adams, who it will be remembered, also dated the end, of an epoch at 1870. In the closing sections, he calls up a picture of (old) Charlie Marx, wordless and forbidding, just beginning to cast his lengthened shadow, seen alike...
...Assistant Majority Leader. In disgrace because of his stand against the President's economy bill fortnight ago, he retrieved some of his lost prestige by sponsoring the Administration's beer bill on the floor. By amending the Volstead Act the measure authorized beer of 3.2% alcoholic content by weight, imposed a $5 per barrel tax, required brewers to take out a $1,000 Federal license. Re-enacted was the old Webb-Kenyon law to protect Dry States from Wet Shipments...
Before the Senate passed (43-to-30) the beer bill, it made three changes: 1) a cut in the alcoholic content to 3.05%, the British tax standard for non-intoxicating beer; 2) inclusion of 3.05% wine, slipped in by California's McAdoo despite the universal opinion of vintners that such "wine" would be slop; 3) a prohibition on beer sales to minors, which would in effect give Federal agents supervision over state distribution...
...conference the House accepted the Senate's wine amendment, the Senate accepted the House's alcoholic content for beer and dropped its no-sales-to-minors proposal. Thus a 3.2% beer bill was sent to the President for his signature. States in which beer sales can start: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming...
...increase the volume of his fragile pianissimos. After his first few broadcasts Stokowski determined to operate the controls himself. Radio authorities were beside themselves but Stokowski would hear no arguments. He was finally given a desk fitted with dials which he could twiddle to his heart's content. The wires were not connected. Hidden from sight was a working set of controls which engineers manipulated as before...