Word: omnibuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever the Monster was, it was a godsend to Loch Ness hotelkeepers, tourist agencies, omnibus operators. At the height of the 1934 excitement newshawks suddenly remembered the Benedictine monastery at Fort Augustus, at the southern and deepest end of the lake. There they found jovial, garrulous 83-year-old the Right Rev. Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart. Sir David is more than a British baronet. He is a onetime captain of Scottish militia, an antiquarian, author of five books of memoirs, a Benedictine monk and titular Abbot of Dunfermline. Abbot Sir David has been an Abbot Emeritus of Fort Augustus...
...Come Across", an omnibus of song, dance, tableau, satire, and horseplay, and all made to order by and for the Hasty Pudding cooks, was handsomely received last night by an audience whose every theatrical appetite must have been satisfied...
...their own section. I argued for six years for flood control on the upper streams that feed the Ohio and drain into the Mississippi before we finally got it into a bill which passed last session." Unfortunately, the bill to which Congressman Griswold referred was the $320,000,000 Omnibus Flood Control bill for which Congress failed to vote an appropriation. Last week chances were strong that Congressman Griswold and the rest of the Ohio River Valley would soon learn what Southerners learned in 1927: that the best means of getting Federal flood control money is to have a good...
...found the Act did not distinguish be tween the jurisdiction of Federal and State courts, recommended an omnibus code of U. S. law to include the Constitution, common law, Federal statutes and the laws of the several States which might arise in U. S. courts. Congress did nothing...
...Eleanor Roosevelt's White House press conferences, U. S.-born Mme Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand, stately wife of the longtime (1902-24) French Ambassador to the U. S., spun tales of oldtime Washington, likened her native land to "a quiet garden," war, scared Europe to "a crowded omnibus where any passenger can make trouble...