Word: elbow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Supercilious Mandarins set aside for the foreign devils of Shanghai a separate area, eventually enlarged to a long strip of mud flats and pestilential swamps on the elbow bend of the Whangpoo River. Here separate concessions were established by Britain, the U. S., France. The French Concession has remained a separate entity, the other two combined in an International Settlement governed by a mixed commission to which other nations, including Japan, were later admitted...
...noon and his colleague, Mrs. Caraway, presented a resolution for a committee to supervise his funeral, 15 Senators rose one after another to pay spontaneous tribute to Joe Robinson. At the White House President Roosevelt, still in bed when the news was brought to him, rose on his elbow and dictated: "In the face of a dispensation so swift in its coming and so tragic in the loss it brings to the Nation, we bow in sorrow. A pillar of strength is gone, a soldier has fallen with face to the battle...
That this incident would have provoked a resignation if strong-willed Dr. Dennett had been getting along smoothly with his trustees, Williams men found hard to believe. They pointed out that Tyler Dennett is a man who needs plenty of elbow room, that he quit his post as Historical Adviser to the State Department in 1931 thoroughly impatient with "bureaucracy." But no one thought that Tyler Dennett, an able, searching scholar whose John Hay biography won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize, would find it hard to get another job. This week the trustees elected as his successor one of their...
...like to delegate authority. To his desk the jury's award went for confirmation, and on his desk it lay for a full five weeks while newshawks waited patiently and 310 artists, many of them nationally prominent, nervously bit their nails. Fortnight ago somebody jogged Secretary Ickes' elbow and the jury's award was approved without comment. The mural contract, a $5,500 job to be completed within a year, went to Manhattan-born Muralist Louis Bouch...
...fingers his snowy mustache. Conservative Justice McReynolds stares meditatively at the fine ceiling of the court room (not shown in the picture). Conservative Justice Sutherland lounges at one side of his chair. Liberal Justice Stone has his hand partly before his face. Liberal Justice Cardozo leans wearily upon one elbow...