Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another 25 minutes the Justices sat while nearly 100 applicants for permission to practice before the Court were introduced, and sworn in in batches. Then the Court rose. Mr. Van Devanter stopped to shake the proud hand of a page boy. A year's work was done. The Justices of the Supreme Court disappeared between the curtains...
...rose in desperation and announced that "within the hour" he had been in conversation with the President. He urged Democrats not to play into the hands of the Republican minority, got them to put off final action on the bill until this week, promised "everything humanly possible will be done to bring about an adjustment fair to every man, to every section, to every project...
Stanley Baldwin ambled into the House of Commons one afternoon last week with the wistful air of a boy in his final day at school. As he had done so many times over so many years, one last time now he "caught the Speaker's eye," stood up to announce that the salaries of Members of Parliament will be raised from ?400 to ?600 ($2,000 to $3,000) a year. From the benches on both sides came shattering applause. For his very last "last word" before retiring from House harness, "the most popular Prime Minister since Balfour" could...
...Renoir since the painter's death in 1919 drew hundreds of Manhattanites to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. To be on view through September 12, the Metropolitan's collection of 62 paintings is appropriately a summer show of a master whose work seems always to have been done in paradisiacal temperatures...
...Piano, painted in 1879, an example of the purest Renoir radiance, and Mine Renoir Nursing Pierre, in which the artist used flat, dry colors and a linear definition of forms very different from the technique by which he is commonly known. The same room contains a bronze relief, done in 1914, of a painting. The Judgment of Paris, done in 1908 and now the property of Actor Charles Laughton. Racked by arthritis during the last 20 years of his life, Renoir had to have his brush strapped to his arm to go on painting, could sculpture only with the help...