Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trick. Governor Herring thrust his hand through the hinge crack of an open door, had a large glass of water placed between his fingers. Unable to pull his hand out without dropping the glass, Governor Herring held it for several minutes while the Dall children whooped & hollered with delight. Then the Governor's 5-year-old grandson took the glass from his flustered grandfather...
...potent, but it enabled him to become politically respectable. As an Alabamian and an anti-utilitarian, he played second fiddle to Senator Norris on the long Muscle Shoals sonata. He got his fellow Alabama veterans costly favors. He picked up the 30-hour-week idea and, to the great delight of Labor, brandished it menacingly about the Senate chamber. In 1933 he got his 30-hour-week bill passed by the Senate amid a great spatter of headlines. Then came NRA which also promised short hours, and Senator Black adroitly sluiced his 30-hour-week following in behind it. Until...
...Brest bold Sub-Prefect Jacques Henry risked lynching by Red mobsters who had torn down the tricolor of France from his Sub-Prefecture and hoisted a Communist banner, to the vast delight of Moscow (see p. 24). While rioters surged around him singing the Internationale, M. Henry grabbed the lanyards and began hauling down the Red flag amid a hail of rivets, bolts and paving stones, one of which bloodied his head. Shouting "Vive la Patrie!", injured Sub-Prefect Henry not only shoved and bluffed his way out of the crowd without giving up the Red flag which...
...only person who has ploughed through every page of the 73 volumes of the Commission's findings. The five Commissioners he exonerates on the ground that they had not read "the record made by their subordinates." Last week he set the assembled powermen to tingling with delight when he blasted away at the Trade Commission investigation as follows...
...real identity of the author was carefully concealed critics and poets gravely debated the merits of this bogus verse and school, argued solemnly whether Poet Emanuel Morgan was a genius or a fraud. In Guest Book Author Bynner again reveals his keen eye for literary and other pretensions, his delight in exposing them with wit and a minimum of malice. Less frankly humorous than his verse play, Cake, less grave than his contemplative Eden Tree, Guest Book nevertheless contains several sprightly amusing poems, several that strike a deep note of sadness and concern. Hospitable and urbane, Author Bynner has among...