Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilmott Lewis, Washington correspondent for the London Times, addressing the Bond Club of New York, declared: "It was very much like the old story of the four men who were endeavoring to lift a grand piano into a truck and were unable to do it. When the fifth man came along, the fifth man did what the four could...
...into the Secretary of State's office at Lansing, Mich, marched the Rev. James W. Hailwood and Tunis Johnson, both of Grand Rapids, to decide the outcome of their race for Democratic nomination to the House. Each had received 4-533 votes. The Secretary of State said they must draw lots. Rev. Mr. Hailwood delayed the proceedings while he read a statement to the effect that he disapproved of "gambling," therefore would not draw a lot himself, would let a proxy do it for him. His proxy then stepped up, drew out of the hat box for Parson Hailwood...
...tried to speak for civil liberties last spring. Such a storm of indignation rose from Liberals that the Department quickly disclaimed the report, said it was still studying the Thomas case. Last week Attorney General Cummings announced that evidence collected by G-Men would be placed before the Federal Grand Jury at Newark next fortnight-but the New Deal would not name its potent Jersey City ally. Boss Hague, in the proceedings; indictments would be sought only against two policemen...
...accurate contemporary determinations of the ohm and the ampere. He got a Nobel Prize 20 years after he retired from the Cavendish directorship. Third director was Sir Joseph John Thomson, who held the post for 35 years, discovered the electron while studying electric discharge in gases. Still alive, a Grand Old Man of 82, Sir Joseph strolls about in a black bowler with a cane clutched behind his back, attends "hall" (dinner) once a week, still putters in an old laboratory, is said by irreverent students never to take a bath. He got his Nobel Prize...
...criticize a bill for overtime submitted by Court Clerk Walter Hannon, called it disgraceful, intimated that it was not legal. Hopping mad, Clerk Hannon waylaid the judge on the courthouse steps a few hours later, beat the daylights out of him. Battered and bruised, Judge Ashurst summoned the Grand Jury into immediate session...