Word: hails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill and John and Jim and Ted-all those White House newshawks who are accustomed to having the President jovially hail them by their first names, were shocked at a White House press conference. The President began with the usual banter - about Secretary Steve Early's coat of tan acquired on vacation. Then someone asked him whether he cared to comment on the bill in Congress to regulate utility holding companies...
...Singing "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here," the survivors of the Macon were landed at San Francisco. A Naval court of inquiry to determine the cause of the accident was convened aboard the U.S.S. Tennessee in the harbor. Three days after the crash "Doc" Wiley got something he had long been waiting for: an order from Washington promoting him from the rank of Lieutenant Commander to that of Commander...
First they shot and killed the Chinese wireless operator as he slept in his bunk. Next Captain Vikhmann and the first mate's wife were murdered in his bed. Aroused by the shots, Mate Azariev rushed up from below decks, crumpled beneath a hail of Mauser bullets. To show precisely where everyone stood, Captain Taudien & friends then shot six unresisting members of the Chinese crew, two of whom were killed as they slept...
...window. In the flogging scene the audience could fairly hear the swish of the whip. When the father-in-law lay dying, Soviet scorn of the church was equally apparent. The priest who performed the perfunctory rites sang a song which sounded like a rowdy equivalent of "Hail. Hail, the Gang's All Here!" Musicians in last week's audience sat fascinated by the uncanny way the orchestra described each character, each situation. Laymen liked the swift-moving stage pictures, consistently more effective than those in almost any other opera. Sometimes sheer noise created the excitement...
...their three-hour chat Justice Carew found Gloria letter-perfect in both the Protestant "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" and Lord's Prayer and in the Catholic "Hail Mary." He also found that she decidedly wanted to stay with her Aunt Gertrude. It was not that she disliked her mother. But it had been no fun knocking around Europe with only an old nurse to play with. Her good times began at Old Westbury. She liked playing with her eight small cousins.* She liked her pony and dog. She liked going to Greenvale School every morning...