Word: gavelling
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...kitchen in Kambridge. The members of the Club are assembled as a high court of inquisition. Sir Larry Hot-Theyrallhot presides, with a huge frankfurter for a gavel. The other members are sitting as a jury impaneled in a saucepan. Mr. Paymore stands before the bar of judgment...
...left the Senate, turned the gavel over to President pro tempore Moses and retired up Pennsylvania Ave. to his rooms in the Willard Hotel. It was presumed that he was reclining en dé shabillé. He had telephoned to the Capitol twice during the afternoon to find out whether his presence was required and the answer had been...
...Vice President seized the gavel and, with a lusty stroke called the Senate to order. The chaplain prayed. Heads were bowed...
Strictly speaking, Mr. Dawes' speech was not a diatribe. A reading of the speech will hardly show anything intemperate. It was less his words than his manner which offended the Senate. His expression, his gestures, his wielding of the gavel disclosed several times more clearly what he thought of the Senate than did his actual phrases. It was his thought rather than his words which gave offense...
Congressmen, working in the shadow of the gavel which terminated the last session of the 68th Congress, finally passed a bill to increase postal pay and postal rates.- The last fierce struggle took place in the Senate. A score of Senators rose to denounce the bill. Particularly bitter were they because it provided a two-cent service charge on every parcels post package-a charge which they declared was robbery of the farmers. A roll call was taken. The bill passed 69 to 12. The twelve negatives came from Senators Borah, Brookhart, Howell, Norbeck-Republicans ; and Bruce, Dial. George, Glass...