Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dear to the hearts of all Congressmen are their perquisites. Among these are free postage on official letters, free stationery, free clerk hire and (for Senators only) free snuff and free mineral water. Although not really a member of Congress, the Vice President shares most of these, has one extra one of his own?an official automobile. But for 146 years there was one fat Congressional perquisite that no Vice President ever got?travel allowance. Last week Vice President Garner got that perquisite...
...shoes. She followed the singers about, pushing them, prompting them, gesturing at them, bursting occasionally into song or husky speech. She cried at the confused pianist: "Piano, piano, don't sprint! Follow the singer!'' She brusquely interrupted arias and duets: "Très pianissimo. . . . But, my dear, you are folle with love for the man! . . . The public-look at your public, there in the galleries too." Then she burst into gay applause: "C'est gentil, ça!" Prowling around, never sitting down, the woman in white went on for three hours, abruptly dismissing one group...
Virtually all lace today is made on machines. Handmade lace, so dear to old ladies, is an insignificant item in world trade, and most of it is made not in Europe but in China. France and England are the leading machine-lace producers but the U. S. also has a lace industry. It represents about $25,000,000 of invested capital, employs 8,000 workers and last year turned out $8,000,000 worth of lace and lace goods...
...afternoon of March 27 a neat little Chinese student in blue serge suit, brown tie and rimless octagonal spectacles was seen sprinting for dear life across the campus of Northeastern Oklahoma State Teachers College at Tahlequah. Daniel Shaw (born Hing Sieu) had traveled all the way from Hongkong in 1931 to study in the U. S., had wandered through colleges in Walla Walla, Wash.. San Francisco, Lynn, Mass., Cicero, Ill. and Lexington, Ky., trying to make up his mind whether to be a missionary or a diplomat. Finally he ended up in Tahlequah to study American Indian lore...
Lawyer Burkan, born 55 years ago in Rumania, can become as impassioned over songs and songwriters as he was when he lately pleaded for the maternal rights of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. Because Victor Herbert was his friend, the ASCAP cause became so dear to his heart that he served it for seven years (1914-21) without pay. Competition between songs is absurd, according to ASCAP and its shrewdly sentimental lawyer. "A person desiring to hear 'Mother Machree,' " says Mr. Burkan, "is not satisfied with and will not accept a rendition of 'A Kiss in the Dark...