Word: oak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they faced each other across the great oak table in Palazzo Venezia last week neither Sir Eric nor the Dictator harbored illusion. The sins and the mistakes of Italy's Victorianism were transparent...
...Oak book cases, built into the walls, contain some 2000 volumes dealing with Seandinavian, Flemish, Dutch, and German art, as well as many other volumes concerning culture of the Germanic countries. Among the treasures of the library is an illustrated first edition of Haus Sachs, entitled the "Wittenburg Nightingale." This is a Protestant poem which was published in 1523, written to be a veiled attack on Catholicism. There is also a volume of Albert Durer's writings which contains several of his famous wood-cuts...
...trench, twelve feet long and six feet wide in good British soil at Carshalton, Surrey, workmen last week laid a ton of firewood and over that a wagonload of burnt oak and charcoal. This pyre was drenched with ten gallons of kerosene and ignited. When it had burned for eight hours and a wind had fanned the embers almost to white heat a scrawny young Hindu named Kuda Bux and a group of respectable-looking Britons appeared. Kuda Bux had promised that by faith he would walk barefooted across the glowing...
...fairly frequent visitor to the White House in the early days of the Administration was Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, the plump radiorator from Royal Oak, Mich. He subsequently split with the President over Inflation, the Bonus, the World Court. Recently, however, Father Coughlin shut up his Washington lobby, conceded: "President Roosevelt enunciates the clearest, most effective and beneficial principles of social and economic justice of any living American political economist." That Franklin Roosevelt had taken a potent critic into camp seemed to be confirmed last week when Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Securities & Exchange Commission rolled up to Hyde...
...State has been the location of the southern hemisphere station of the University Observatory since 1927, previous to which time the observatory "down underneath" was situated in Peru. Photographs of the southern sky are regularly sent here to supplement those taken of the northern heavens at the Cambridge and Oak Ridge stations...