Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the Democrats gained control of the House, Garner was promoted to the Speakership. Mississippi was redistricted and Collier lost a seat. Crisp dreamed of becoming a Senator and was beaten. Only Rainey remained. Last spring when the House was choosing a Speaker, John McDuffie of Alabama was a leading candidate until Doughton got busy...
...shells raced past the half-mile and then past the mile. Suddenly Bissell barked out his crisp command. "Up it, Gerry. Send it up." It was the signal to raise the stroke, to start the last...
...faults, but they represent the tendencies of the age. It is only a pity that there are so many pied de terres pocking the map of Europe such as Belgium, Poland, and the Balkans, flints to the steel that sparks international discord into war. Liberty, equality, fraternity, are as crisp and dead as the documents which attest to their existence. Democracy was only a step on the road to efficient dictatorship, as the Swastika aptly shows. Scientific organization cannot admit of rugged individualism...
...that it is all over a few more cold crisp facts concerning Mr. Julian Lowell Coolidge's one-auditor-and-no-enrolled-student course come to light. The course, faithful readers will recall, was given the airy spaciousness of Harvard 4, where Professor Coolidge had plenty of room for forensic effects on the lecturer's platform, while the auditor took notes feverishly and otherwise played the role of a full class. One day, during a lecture, a minor luminary of the janitorial force appeared at the door, looked in cautiously, then advanced bodily, into the almost empty hall. "Hello...
...week that the Dictator had shushed the U. S. feature length film Mussolini Speaks, banned it from ever being shown in Italy. Patched together from newsreel shots, it parades for over an hour the electrifying facial mannerisms of Orator Mussolini (see cut) (TIME, March 20). The Dictator's crisp reason for shushing Mussolini Speaks: "Not timely enough"- all of the patched-together shots being perforce somewhat old. When Patcher-Together Jack Cohn sought to see II Duce in Rome, expecting praise, he was politely accorded the briefest audience, was not asked even to sit down...