Word: halls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having regard to the manner in which the busts of eminent Americans find their way into University Heights' Hall of Fame a group of twelve men meeting in this town submit the following eminent contemporaries for consideration after 1965. You will note that under the present three-fifths rule only the first four were elected...
Some idea of how realistic might be the results of the democracy v. dictatorship discussions could be got from the character of the building in which the delegates sat down to business. It was the hall of the Peruvian Congress, Hispanic, charming, but a little small for the 136 delegates. The Congress has not met for more than two years, having been sent home in 1936 by General Oscar R. Benavides, who has run Peru singlehanded ever since...
Above the drum roll which U. S. parsons beat week in, week out, a flute note piped up last week. The flutist was feminine. In Manhattan's Town Hall, under the auspices of the League for Political Education, a comely young Ph. D. named Ruth Alexander pleaded religion's cause in a lecture, Religion as a Force in Government, which she has delivered up & down the land...
...behave themselves, an authoritarian U. S. Government will teach them how. Miss Alexander's message: "Have a religious experience for your country's sake." Dr. Alexander has lectured before the Pennsylvania Electric Association, the Indiana State Bar Association, the D. A. R. Her contented-looking Town Hall audience last week nodded and applauded vigorous agreement with such of her points as: "Hardship is the only builder of character known to mankind...
Because the aristocratic von Trapps had a good deal of time on their hands, and because Father & Mother von Trapp were both good amateur musicians, the family developed the pleasant habit of making music together. On crisp Tirolese evenings they all gathered in the hall of their mountain castle to sing and play hoary Latin masses and lusty Tirolese folk songs...