Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sitting in an easy chair while he listened to a radio rendition of "You Can't Take That Away from Me," the baggage master, solo guardian of the trunks, appeared to have the situation well in hand...
BERKELEY, CALIF. Nov. 19: On the eye of the 41st Stanford-California football game, 3,000 students and numerous graduates and townspeople got out of hand following the annual pre-game rally. $10,000 damage and numerous injuries resulted before the celebrants left for Palo Alto, scene of the encounter. The rioters pushed automobiles into theater lobbies and derailed trolley cars...
...book under his arm. The four proceeded into Section 48, found their seats, and gazed up at the field. While Cousin Arthur studied his new environment, Uncle Henry tested his glasses to learn if he could see the opposite goal post. The Vagabond took advantage of the silence to hand his girl the little book and announce significantly: "This is a football rule book, so that no one will ask questions." The relatives looked at one another, then at the girl. The rule book passed to and fro, and the Vagabond watched the game in peace...
Last summer, immediately following the adjournment, when the President was left angry and defeated on a majority of issues, political prophets expressed the belief that a special session would be called, and that when that session assembled, there would be at hand a splendid barometer for testing popular sentiment on the subject of the New Deal. For the President, as well as the Congressmen, was to visit many of the important constituencies, and, they argued, the attitude when Congress re-assembled would reflect, to a large extent, the attitude of the voters "back home...
...President took his swing across the country and returned, brimming with confidence, and assured that he would again hold the whip hand. But, during the summer, what Mr. Roosevelt himself referred to in his message to Congress as a "marked recession" in business, set in, and the tide began to run out fast...