Word: mr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clear the view. At Hyde Park, where the royal standard was flown from the portico, the grueling formality and handshaking ended (the royal hands were swollen). After church on Sunday, where Rector Frank Wilson dryly observed that attendance would improve if all parishioners would bring their guests as Mr. Roosevelt did, the King shed his necktie, ate hot dogs, drank beer (Ruppert's) at a "dream cottage" picnic, photographed the Indian storyteller and singer who performed. Squire Roosevelt whizzed the Royal pair around in his Ford with manual brakes and gearshift, giving Scotland Yard palpitations. He and the King...
...Good luck to you! All the luck in the world!" shouted Franklin Roosevelt as the train pulled out for Quebec. They had all exchanged photographs, and the King gave the President a gold inkstand. To Their Majesties, Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt presented copies of all the books they have written...
...numbering some 8,000,000 items) if admirers would build, with private funds, a repository for them at Hyde Park on land which he would donate, and if Congress would keep it up in perpetuity with public funds. Last week this offer lay before the House for acceptance. To Mr. Roosevelt's admirers' dismay, it was declined...
...MacLeish appointment was, of course, none of the House's business. But to the Senate, whence his confirmation must come, went protests against Poet MacLeish based on charges-more considerable than "Communism"-to which he humbly pleaded guilty. In announcing the appointment, Mr. Roosevelt explained that ever since 77-year-old Dr. Herbert Putnam (40 years Librarian, emeritus since last year) asked to be relieved, a search had been afoot for a successor possessing the many qualifications required. Mr. Roosevelt had finally decided that technical assistants could be hired for a librarian whose attainments as "gentleman and a scholar...
...most important library in the world needs the skill of a trained and experienced library administrator. I have the highest respect for Mr. MacLeish as a poet, but I should no more think of him as Librarian of Congress than as chief engineer of a new Brooklyn Bridge . . . about the same as appointing a man Secretary of Agriculture because he likes cut flowers on his dinner table...