Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"On which occasion he will introduce a variety of Amusing Burlesques, Comical Delineations, Enlivening Funnyism, Gleesome Humors, Innoxious Jolities, Kindling Levities, Mirthful Novelties, Outjesting Palliatives, Queer Reminiscences, Satirical Truisms, Ubiquitous Voices, Wags, Xantippes, Yahoos, Zaneys, etc. etc.
The occasion was his signing, just before leaving Washington for Hyde Park, a bill setting up a $10,000-a-year fiscal-&-personnel manager for the Federal judiciary. Present at the signing was Homer Stille Cummings* who, as Attorney General, included a similar court officer in the tricky bill which...
Leader of the House of Commons rebels was no Jack Garner, but cherubic, rebellious Conservative Winston Churchill, who, when stirred, is the House's most effective speaker. Last week Mr. Churchill let himself go in the most savage speech he has made since the post-Munich debate. The occasion...
Judge Dewhirst revealed that the House of David, never very large, had dwindled somewhat in recent years. It has 171 members, who pool their possessions, employ some 70 other people on occasion. Like many another eccentric sect, it has a rival, and in its native Benton Harbor, Mich.-the House...
Last week he saw one of his pet dreams come true. For 18 years Jimmy Rice tried to persuade the U.S. Government to finance a world's fair of poultry. When the Government began saying no, he organized in 1921 the first world's poultry fair at The...