Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Power had been baptized and brought up as a member of the Roman Catholic Church, which regards his 1939 civil marriage to French Actress Annabella as invalid...
...stuffy about Peter Marshall, even when he thundered from the pulpit against liquor, sexy magazine pictures, and Hollywood divorces. He wore tweed jackets, polo shirts and bright ties, chain-smoked cigarettes and once surprised some elderly churchwomen by banging on a piano and singing Oh, You Beautiful Doll. A member of no party, he called himself "progressive and liberal." At times his philosophy was reflected in pointed prayers before the Senate. Marshall once implored: "Help us to care, as Thou dost care, for the little people who have no lobbyists, for the minority groups who sorely need justice...
Dondero's don'ts: don't smoke behind the rails or chew on unlighted pipes or cigars; don't park feet on the top or back of chairs; don't walk in front of a member who is speaking; don't read newspapers on the floor during a session; don't call colleagues by their given names-Jim or John ("we all know better-it's the gentleman or gentlewoman...
...Goodbye." The speaker mumbled a ruling. "Mr. Speaker has ruled that the word is in order," snapped Bustamante, glowering at the member from East Westmoreland. "There is only one twisted person here. You. Goodbye." As he strode from the chamber, he called on his party's eight representatives to follow him. All except Education Minister Jehoida Augustus McPherson...
Burr was President of the Alumni Association in 1929, Overseer for the term 1931-37, and a member of the Radcliffe Council and the Board of Trustees...