Word: hands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though to prove the old Texan's new power, Capitol Hill last week beheld an unusual spectacle. Soon after the hot Cabinet session, two Cabinet members called on the Senate's president in one day, hat in hand. One was Secretary Wallace of Agriculture, of whose acreage restrictions and proposed revival of processing taxes Mr. Garner disapproves. The other was Harry Hopkins, whose WPA performance will be mercilessly reviewed before the Senate confirms him as Secretary of Commerce...
...other end of Lake Erie, Buffalo was buffeted by 30-ft. waves. Police had to rig hand lines through streets for pedestrians. The wind touched 66 m.p.h. Two oldsters died of heart-failure, one bucking the wind, the other chasing...
Hitler-"Then end the meeting and in shaking his hand you tell him nicely: 'You are old and I am young. To get your answer, I will meet you part way. It will be at Milan...
...hopelessly sentimental and confused. It is one thing to satirize the evils of predatory industrialism and hymn the praises of clean and sturdy toil. But it is nonsense to give the impression that hardship is better than ease, that back-breaking hours over a plow are beautiful, that the hand is quicker than the machine, or that the profit motive was first discovered shortly before the Civil...
Discouraged by a steady decline in the number of U. S. students studying languages, and by the racial and religious discriminations against teachers in other lands -which they deplored*-2,500 members of the Modern Language Association met for their 55th convention last week in Manhattan. On hand to comfort them with a puckish ode to "useless knowledge" was Dr. Joseph Wood Krutch, literary critic and English professor at Columbia University...