Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys across the aisle do the talking," he would say, smiling dreamily as he shot his cuffs. So it was not Borah or California's Johnson or Michigan's expletive Vandenberg who took the headlines in the Court debates. It was Virginia's red-hot Glass, Montana's Wheeler, Nebraska's Burke, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey-Democrats...
...headed Carter Glass, who has snarled at the New Deal's "invasion" of States' rights, who turned down the Secretariat of the Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt, but who respects the propertied classes, got angry in the proper tradition last week. He took the Senate floor to demand passage of a bill appropriating $100,000 to buy Patrick Henry's Red Hill estate as a national monument. Senator Glass, bitter at his Government and angry with its leaders, contented himself with a snarl at an unnamed official of the Interior Department, who, he said, "does not think Patrick...
...Deadlocked in conference with the Senate over funds to help run the District of Columbia (payroll: 11,000 workers), with an ultimatum that the sum be not more than $5,000,000 for fiscal 1940. Virginia's Senator Glass was equally adamant on not less than $6,500,000. Washington bankers offered the District credit...
...designed as a simple parabolic vault with the parish house springing out at right angles from the apse. As simple and logical inside as out, the church's altar of native Kasota stone is focused by radiating rustication. The auditorium's only gadget is useful: a glass enclosed gallery where mothers may sit with infants likely to cry. Dedicated three weeks ago, St. Austin's design has done nothing but please its congregation...
...place in her daydreams while she is lounging by a California swimming pool. For, as Ginger Rogers yearns to do, and occasionally does, pictures without her dancing shoes, Sonja Henie's ambition is to do one without her skates. Judging from the acting Trudi Hovland does before her glass with heavy dramatic lines like "Let me go, Aye tall yu," this ambition will take some realizing. But so have all Sonja Henie's ambitions. And as she herself has remarked: "Most always...