Word: frames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down Flandin. When Deputies straggled back to their desks, they found a flunkey struggling up to the tribune with a heavy pedestal, its top padded with red plush. A few minutes later Pierre Etienne Flandin walked slowly into the room, his face pale, his huge frame much thinner than before his automobile accident last month. His broken left arm in a plaster cast was supported by a sort of wicker basket which, when he reached the rostrum, he rested on the plush pedestal. The entire Chamber, including the Communist Deputies, rose and cheered not Flandin the Premier but Flandin...
...gold standard has reached heroic proportions. Their inflationary experience of a little over a decade ago convinced them that a decision to devaluate is nothing short of an invitation to disaster, a voluntary walking of the plank. It's much more than a political creed; it's a national frame of mind, the result of bitter experience...
Fortnight ago a thin, black-eyed Russian woman, owner of the Moscow Restaurant in Seattle's crowded White Russian colony, gazed out of the window to see why her dog barked. She saw a shadowy figure kindling a fire against the frame walls of the old Russian Orthodox Church where she worshipped each Sunday. Russian patrons raced out of the café, pounced upon Robert Bruce Driscoll...
Held to three hits until the eighth, the Crimson rallied strongly and pushed over four runs, to take the lead in that frame. It was Toby Tyler's double with two men on base that saved the day for Harvard. Eddie Ingalls pitched his customary strong game, striking out twelve of the Terriers and holding them to five hits...
Heavy with presents were the trunks. From the Met's stagehands there was a parchment scroll in a revolving bronze frame. The choristers gave a bronze plaque, the U. S. singers a silver plaque, the orchestramen a gold plaque. From Geraldine Farrar there was a silver loving cup, another from Rosa Ponselle. The administrative assistants chose a silver fitted traveling-case. The Metropolitan directors gave a silver tray with a set of resolutions. Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath was more practical. His gift: a bust of Mr. Gatti to be placed in the Metropolitan. Gatti asked only...