Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mahoney of Wyoming, speaking against the Court Bill. Mr. O'Mahoney was complaining about the rule (no more than two speeches per Senator) which had been clamped down to limit debate. With good nature he pointed an accusing finger down into Joe Robinson's face...
...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...
...permit his zeal to invite his own destruction. . . . My fellow Senators, I am sorry sometimes that I ever studied medicine. Nearly 50 years have elapsed since I received that coveted diploma but the embarrassment of medical knowledge is that many times it discloses to the medical man in the face and bearing of a friend the warning his dissolution is near at hand. Mr. President, I say in all seriousness to my brethren that the menace is here in this Chamber today...
Pioneer Days. "The early pioneers faced many hardships. . . . Their companions were forest bears, panthers, deer, wolves, wildcats and raccoons. The hoot of the owl drifting on the nocturnal air above the drone of countless insects and the croaking of frogs made the night forbidding. . . . [One pioneer's account] : 'On one occasion I was out with some other gentlemen, John Montgomery, Morgan Thurston and Alex Wilbert in search of a hog which I owned and which was missing, when we were brought face to face with a large she bear and two small cubs...
...Ichikawa admitted that the only things good about England were "the policeman, cart-horses and Simpson's beef-steak." * The worst example of English bad taste she found in her hotel lavatory, where the toilet-paper was stamped with an advertisement showing "a lovely little child's face." Peering through heavy bars at the British crown in the Tower of London, she wished that she could be in the crown's place looking out at the acquisitive expression on the faces of the onlookers...