Word: happening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promising that this year the New Deal should not go leaderless in the House. Already Washington was filling up with the bigwigs of Congress. Democrats from Speaker Byrns to Senator Harrison were singing the same old tune: a short and peaceful session adjourning in May. If that was to happen it would require much good work on Leader Bankhead's part, and he himself had no illusions. Said he: "I look for a snappy session but not necessarily a short...
...What he meant was that war might take the place of an election. The political priest might be right or wrong but the fact remained that never before in U. S. history have so many extensive and intensive attempts been made so far in advance to foretell what will happen...
Lacy McNair, the bridge tender, was the only one who saw it happen, and there was nothing he could do. To let a tug through one morning last week he had just opened the drawbridge over the muddy Appomattox River a mile from Hopewell, Va. when he heard a tearing crash. Twisting, he saw a big Greyhound bus southbound from Richmond skid through the safety gate, plunge with its screaming passengers off the open bridge. Nothing came up from the 24-foot depth but some oil, bubbling and streaking the surface of the yellow river...
...these students were given an "E" on the paper, were warned against a recurrence of the act. The tutoring school in question was confronted with the evidence, admitted its guilt, and promised that the occurence would not happen again...
...HAPPEN HERE-Sinclair Lewis -Donbleday, Doran...