Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norris, grey and cadaverous, was on his feet at his Senate desk. The chamber, emptied by an hour-long tariff speech by Senator Broussard of Louisiana, began filling up. In his rear-row seat Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut kept shifting his long legs nervously. His well-cut white head was bent forward; his eyes strayed toward Senator Norris, dropped, scanned the chamber. Senator Jones of Washington glanced up from the workaday stack of books and papers on his desk. Senator Johnson of California in the front row swung his red chair halfway round to watch. His colleague, Senator Shortridge...
Fussbudgety Senator Fess of Ohio was on his feet. Senator Bingham's eyes traveled trustingly to him. Said Senator Fess: "Mr, President, I ask the Senator [Norris] if he will not allow the resolution to go over." Senator Norris moved his head in the perfunctory assent of one long used to the Senate's delays. Senator Fess sat down. Senator Bingham looked at the back of Senator Norris' head...
Bingham friends?old Guardsmen Smoot and Edge? tried to head off the inevitable with substitute resolutions, oblique and apologetic, which "disapproved" of such a transaction without specifically criticizing Senator Bingham. But the Senate, in stern self-righteous mood, rejected them...
...four sleepers, diner, observation car, and baggage caboose, is none other than Joe Hughes, colored porter, who back in 1919 was attached to the car which brought Harvard's team to the Tournament of Roses at Pasadena. Joe was not long in recognizing Arnold Horween, now the University's head coach, as the Crimson's captain, and Eddie Casey, now its backfield coach, as the star back of the Harvard outfit of ten years...
Harvard University has just completed arrangement with Pathe whereby production on two series of educational motion pictures will begin immediately, it was announced yesterday. Plans for the pictures have been prepared by K. F. Mather, head of the Department of Geography here, under whose supervision the pictures will be edited...