Word: mall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pall Mall room of Washington's Raleigh Hotel there was a grand celebration. All but nine of the Senate's 75 Democrats were present. Outside the door was a little wooden ramp of the kind whose appearance at any Washington hotel indicates that the President himself may arrive at any moment. Over the prandial tablecloth fluttered two perturbed tumbling pigeons, symbols of Peace. The Democratic Party was about to celebrate the accession of a new leader in the Senate, to drown old woes in new harmony...
Many a lean British Cavalry officer lolling in his Pall Mall or Piccadilly Club, many a ruddy, fox-hunting squire taking a pull at the Tuke Holdsworth 1908, exploded apoplectically last week as they thumbed through the Illustrated London News. What pulled them up snorting was a series of pictures of old, crippled, starved horses almost too decrepit to stand, all of whom had done gallant War-time service. Most pitiable were two photographs of a famished, broken-kneed old black mare which had once seen proud service with the nth Hussars, a bay cavalry gelding with "all his joints...
Whatever the reason, last week's ceremony of Trooping the Color, high spot in all King's Birthday celebrations, went off with unction and dispatch. Crowds as dense as those for the Coronation itself jammed the Mall from Buckingham Palace to the Horse Guards Parade back of Whitehall, packed solidly the rim of that vast parade ground. Forming three sides of a hollow square of bulbous bearskins and scarlet coats stood eight companies, chosen from the five regiments of the Brigade of Guards...
...gentleman-at-large" had driven away from Buckingham Palace, another motor had passed him on the Mall going in the opposite direction. Sitting in it ramrod-stiff was hawk-nosed, sallow-skinned Chancellor of the Exchequer Arthur Neville Chamberlain...
...Promptly at the opening of every session, with patience comparable to Senator Norris' in getting the Lame Duck Amendment, Representative Boylan would introduce a resolution to build a gigantic memorial to Statesman Jefferson that could hold its own with the Lincoln Memorial at the west end of the Mall. Promptly every session it was tabled, until the 73rd Congress found itself with buckets of New Deal money to spend. Quickly Representative Boylan's Jefferson Memorial bill was passed, an expenditure of $3,000,000 authorized (but not appropriated) and a commission set up to draw plans, with Congressman...