Word: gavelling
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Coffee Break. Funnyman Bob Hope took a turn with the gavel, twitted Crooner Bing Crosby, whose new young wife is expecting a baby in August: "You can tell how important this tournament is to get Bing away from the nest. Bing had his last child 20 years ago. That's quite a coffee break." Comedian Hank Henry came on to peddle Texan Billy Maxwell and tried to swing a deal with one of the more belligerent celebrities in the crowd. "What am I bid for Elsa Maxwell? This would be a good buy for Walter Winchell. How about Elsa...
...Latin. In Minneapolis, Municipal Judge Dana Nicholson proposed that Minnesota's lower courts be put on a circuit basis, offered the slogan "Gavelo donatus, circumire paratus" and provided his own translation: "Have gavel, will travel...
...retorted Stevens, whose nerves were already jangled because his vending-machine business is in deep trouble with the state sales-tax authorities. "I would hate to bring up the thousands of people who have conferred with Commissioner Howse on matters like this." Mayor E. E. Baird banged his gavel, declared the meeting in recess...
...Heavy Gavel. Literally presiding over Lutheranism's move toward the outside world is Franklin Clark Fry. He is, in fact, considered to be the outstanding presiding officer in his or any other church; with Roberts' Rules of Order at his fingertips and a mind like an I.B.M. machine, he seems able to get purposeful action out of the most unpromising assembly. When he presided at the opening session of the constituting convention of the National Council of Churches in 1950, he insisted on no fewer than 44 amendments to the proposed constitution before permitting the United Lutherans...
...sheep have learned to fear Dr. Fry's brisk impatience. One such was a delegate who held the floor at a conference with a tedious speech declaring his readiness to "go to bat" for some project. On his third repetition of this phrase, Fry banged down his gavel and intoned: "Three strikes-you're out!" Other sheep become altogether too sheeplike-as did one bemused delegate who rose to proclaim: "I move what President Fry thinks...