Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress: Distinguished as the Senate's lone Farmer-Laborite,*he is no radical ranter. The Republican majority has taken him unofficially under its wing. Thanks to the G. O. P., he has good committee assignments (especially Foreign Relations, Agriculture). He is even chairman of one minor committee (Printing). Theoretically the most independent man in the Senate, he can generally be found lining up with the Insurgent Republicans on economic questions. As a Senator he represents a bookish type who carries no flaming banner of Liberalism pellmell into the midst of a political fight. His largest single legislative accomplishment...
With a chaste and simple dignity, the Interfraternity Council yesterday announced that no freshmen will be permitted in fraternity houses over Green Key week-end. With the deliverance of that dictum, to which, incidentally, the Council gave its unanimous approval, there vanished the freshman's last and lone solution to the odd-moment problem...
...Chapei district next began, was answered by Chinese field pieces of surprising power. Mounted on a railway car a Chinese eight-inch gun dashed up and down. It scored few hits but barely missed the Japanese flagship and other warboats (some neutral) in the harbor. Zipping up, a lone Chinese airman in a lone U. S. Boeing pursuit plane rashly disputed Japanese mastery of the air, wounded a Japanese ace before he was shot down...
...this rough-&-tumble by-play irritated Senator Costigan. He and his fellow-Harvardman Bronson Cutting constitute the Senate's two lone esthetes. It occurred to Senator Costigan that, having studied the problem for months, he or Senator La Follette might have been consulted when a substitute program was undertaken...
...tousling of five Japanese monks by a gang of coolies. Promptly a group of Japanese naval officers called on the editor in his office in the International Settlement, gave him 24 hours to print an apology "on pain of adopting suitable measures." The monks were avenged by a lone Japanese who attacked a Chinese towel factory single-handed in the middle of the night. He flung blazing newspapers into the weaving room. Other Japanese attacked policemen attempting to summon fire engines. When the towels were finally extinguished 1,000 Japanese held a mass meeting in the Japan Club, and Rear...