Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco Castillo Najera was absent in Lima; German Hans Dieckhoff had been called home; moose-tall Sir Ronald Lindsay, dean of the diplomatic corps, was vacationing in Britain, but Lady Lindsay attended, holding a little court of her own in the Green Room instead of going down the handshaking line...
...Tariff Commission and as Internal Revenue Commissioner. From 1921 until after the election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 he was a workaday Washington lawyer. Helping to swing his friend Senator McAdoo's delegates from Garner to Roosevelt at Chicago, and being a Southerner, put him in line for the Roosevelt Cabinet. An assiduous politician but not a brilliant executive, 71-year-old Secretary Roper contributed to the New Deal more than comic relief for cynical journalists, more than platitudinous speeches. He performed the useful function of massaging the bumps on Business' head every time Franklin Roosevelt cracked down...
...shovel coal out now, the Council would liberalize benefits all along the line. Instead of waiting until 1942 to begin monthly benefit payments and making lump sum payments to workers who reach 65 before then, it suggested moving the monthly benefits back to 1940, making them bigger, adding annuities for wives over 65, benefits for widows and orphans. This would reduce the burden on Social Security's independent old-age-assistance program,* designed primarily for uninsured oldsters...
...Derrydale Press. Offices of The Derrydale Press are a paneled dining room in an old brownstone mansion off Manhattan's Park Avenue. Unforewarned, an old-line author would probably think he had stumbled into the home of some eccentric country gentleman. Like as not he would be sniffed by a bird dog. On the reception table is sometimes a bag of quail. The stenographer keeps her clips and pins in a dry-fly box. The bookkeeper uses a dipsy (sinker) for a paperweight...
...Patrick, first line winger, was the first scorer for the Varsity, when he sank a pass from Harding at 9:10. Then, after Lenox of the Trojans had evened things up. Dave Eaton took what looked to most of the spectators and all of the Trojans like an offside pass from Warren Winslow, and netted it with 57 seconds of the period remaining...