Word: handiwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Useless to ask questions of the man who drew up the budget! He, debonair M. Francois Pietri. Minister of the Budget in the Laval Cabinet, not only forgot-believe it or not-his handiwork completely but rushed to Premier Herriot's aid in the Chamber debate fortnight ago, delivered an elegant harangue asking his fellow Deputies to "vote this payment for the honor of France...
...exact model of her own home, working either from photographs or plans. Prices, they promise, will not be exorbitant. Unemployed draughtsmen and department stores are not the only people to benefit. Frames for the doll houses are made at Greenwich House Workshops, a semi-charitable institution to teach handiwork to New York children. Each doll house bears a Delano & Aldrich label, is a fine advertisement for the firm...
...Leopold Blaschka, whose handiwork that orchid is, was a glassblower, highly skilled in contriving the intricate models then as now used in teaching the sciences. His particular field was marine invertebrates, but as a pastime he made flowers with which to decorate his home. Persuaded by Harvard University he turned his full attention to glass flowers, and produced that unique collection which is now in the University Museum...
...were twirled around like so many rubber balls. As in a knife-throwing exhibition, it pitched sharp imposts at individuals and industries. It juggled normal rates, surtax rates, corporation rates, gift rates, inheritance rates, stock rates, dividend rates into a high and hazy jumble. Then it bundled all its handiwork up into one conglomerate bill, which it passed by vote of 327-to-64 and sent to the Senate with the hope that it would raise in new revenue the billion-odd dollars necessary to balance the 1933 budget...
...last week's proceedings were in the Committee of the Whole House and the votes, representing scarcely half the membership, were taken without roll calls. It was possible but not probable that the regular leaders could later wipe out the coalition's handiwork when the Committee of the Whole rose and the amended bill was put to a series of formal votes...