Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleague, ponderous Logan of Kentucky, who slipped over an act basically altering the authority of the New Deal's entire administrative structure while Leader Barkley and his whip, "Shay" Minton, were engrossed in conversation right on the floor. Not only that, but Senator Logan argued in open Senate against his colleague and Leader, when the latter came to next day. He would not yield his victory, and garrumped at the New Deal agencies whose oxen were most seriously gored: "Congress created them and if Congress wants to restrict their powers, they should keep their mouths shut...
...gaols are open, and the prisoners have joined with the populace...
...power of the famed Soong sisters of China has long been an open book. The influence of Magda Lupescu, mistress of Carol II of Rumania, is openly acknow edged in Rumania. But the role that Edda Ciano, née Mussolini, has played in the momentous recent realignments of European nations, has been half concealed by a regime which refuses to admit women in politics. The Official Life of Benito Mussolini, by Giorgio Pini, a translation of which was recently published in London, allots only three short sentences to Daughter Edda: 1) to report her birth; 2) to tell about...
Nelson, a 27-year-old Texan, was trying to add the P.G.A. (match play) championship to the National Open (medal play) championship he won last month and thus become the only professional golfer besides Gene Sarazen to win the two major U. S. titles in one year. Picard, 31-year-old New Englander, had never won a major U. S. tournament although he has long been considered one of the game's best shotmakers...
...Wimbledon. Younger but more famed than Henley or the Open are the All-England tennis championships, held at hallowed Wimbledon for the 59th time last week. With Donald Budge playing for pay and Helen Wills Moody in retirement, U. S. stay-at-homes held out little hope for their Wimbledonians this year. But, after a fortnight of elimination matches, the two men who faced each other on the famed centre court were 21-year-old Bobby Riggs, U. S. No. 1, and Elwood Cooke, an unheralded 25-year-old Oregonian who had defeated France's Christian Boussus, England...