Word: halled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moments in the Senate filibuster last week, some oldtimers had the uneasy feeling that they ought to go out into the Capitol's Statuary Hall and see if the bronze statue of Huey Long was still on its pedestal. Before them in the well of the Senate they saw Huey's pug-nosed, mischievous face, watched his arm chop the air, and heard the voice of Louisiana's murdered demagogue. Huey's 30-year-old son Russell was making his maiden speech...
Hell with Angells. He was a chipper, bouncy little man, more distinguished than handsome ("Apparently Yale doesn't choose its presidents for pulchritude," he said). Though he was famed for his wit and brilliance, few Yale undergraduates could have claimed to know him well. In his Woodbridge Hall office ("The only hell with Angells in it," students called it), the president had had little time for student callers. He seldom entertained, and in all those 16 years he never acquired a nickname...
...Town Hall, Contralto Ferrier had no topnotch Glyndebourne production behind her, although she did have a familiar Euridice opposite her: U.S. Soprano Ann Ayars, who had sung the role with her in England and on records.#&134; But Conductor Thomas K. Scherman's Little Orchestra (38 players) and 40 singers from the Westminster Choir got into the graceful spirit of Gluck's music with the overture, and stayed in it to the last gaily triumphant note. It was, however, the dramatically restrained passion of Kathleen Ferrier's singing, in a voice that is even and full through...
...tribunal held its investigation from February 21 to March 4, alternating hearing sites between the State House and Langdell Hall in the Law School...
...million new housing units must be constructed by 1960 if the United States is to solve its housing problem," Jesse Epstein, former west coast director for the Public Housing Administration, said last night in Emerson Hall at the Graduate Forum's "New Horizons in Housing...