Word: gavelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the 74 had taken their seats.* Senator Barkley, as Acting Leader, rapped lor order. Turning the gavel over to Senator Pittman, President Pro-temp of the Senate, Candidate Barkley took his seat with the others. The chairman appointed McKellar (a Barkley man) and Russell (for Harrison) to count the ballots. Senator Black, secretary of the majority conference, prepared to write them down. Carter Glass, oldest man in the Senate, offered his battered Panama for a ballot box. prompting New Jersey's Smarty Smathers, three months a Senator, to crack about secret ballots in a glass...
...Dutch couple on this occasion severely and at great length, pointing out that marriage is no bed of roses, duty comes before pleasure, wealth is the visible reward of industrious virtue, and honesty the inescapable policy. This Dutch-uncle lecture, and the smart blow of the Burgomaster's gavel with which he knocked the pair down to each other, Juliana & Bernhard bore with placid disregard of how much time was passing, but in the Great Church across the street impatience grew...
...First-Class wedding the whole countryside had turned out to cheer them but the Vice-Burgomaster, who performed the ceremony, lectured them in the same Dutch-uncle vein as the Burgomaster of The Hague used in lecturing Their Royal Highnesses. After completing the marriage with a stroke of his gavel, the Vice-Burgomaster concluded, "You two young people must not get the idea that you are of any importance just because all these people have come here while you are married. Your marriage would never have been noticed had it not been celebrated on the same day as that...
...Portland's Municipal Auditorium NEA's retiring President Agnes Samuelson of Iowa picked up her gavel, banged it unceremoniously, keynoted: "Democracy must preserve education if education is to preserve democracy!" From that moment broad-beamed President Samuelson had to pound her gavel incessantly, finally smashed it, as the NEA party turned into a loud, nervous assault on the Association's two prime whipping boys...
...time piping passages from Aesop's Fables in his youthful tenor. It was 11:55 Prn. when the Senate finally gave in. But the House, though too tired for adjournment horseplay, could not stop talking. Not until 12:39 a. m. did Speaker Bankhead's gavel ring to a halt the listless end of the 74th Congress' listless second & last session...