Word: department
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even more stunned by 36-year-old Maurice Tobin's victory over him than he was by his Senatorial trimming at the hands of 34-year-old Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 62-year-old Jim Curley, his golden voice hoarse, prepared to depart for the West Indies. To reporters who intimated that he had received a second unmistakable cue for his political exit, the old boss parried: "I will decide what to do next when I have had a rest and my vision is clear...
...built since the West Virginia was commissioned in 1923. North Carolina's proud Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton shot the second rivet and the Yard's new commandant, Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward, dispatched the third. Before newsreel cameramen had picked up their equipment to depart, a battery of professional riveters was at work. When the North Carolina is completed some time in 1941, along with its sister ship the Washington, whose keel will be laid at Philadelphia Navy Yard next spring, the Navy will have the two biggest (35,000 tons), fastest (27 knots), best-armed (nine...
Late reports indicated that Eugene H. Buder '38, would depart for Princeton, New Jersey this morning on his bicycle as planned...
...among the more conscientious watchers of U. S. letters, the question still smouldered: What's to happen to Hemingway? On the twin assumptions that (1) once an author had chosen a given field he could not depart from it, and hence (2) once he had exhausted that field or the public had tired of it, he was through as a writer, Hemingway was through. He had made himself the principal spokesman of the violence, aimlessness, brutality of war and the wartime generation. Violence, aimlessness, brutality were pretty well washed up as literary material. Ergo, Hemingway too was washed...
...repeal but she has not changed her 15-year-old paragraph on drinking: "No gentleman goes to a lady's house if he is affected by alcohol. A gentleman seeing a young man who is not entirely himself in the presence of ladies quietly induces the youth to depart. An older man addicted to the use of too much alcohol need not be discussed, since he inevitably ceases to be asked to the houses of people of distinction...