Word: oval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cozy ceremony took place last week in the White House. President Roosevelt sat in his study-the Oval Room on the second floor, overlooking the wintry south lawn towards the bleak pinnacle of the Washington monument-surrounded by his paintings of white-sailed ships scouring green-blue seas. Around him was gathered an intimate group, some two dozen personal friends and members of his official family. They were there to witness the administration of two oaths of office, simple in themselves, but of large importance to the company inside, to the country outside. The chief clerk of the Treasury swore...
Therefore to those who watched, last week's ceremony in the Oval Room meant the installation of a new professor in the chair of U. S. economics-and left unchanged the fact that the President of the U. S. was his own Finance Minister...
...some ways Yale gained by waiting. Of the projected ten or possibly eleven Colleges, seven went into operation at once: Branford, Calhoun, Davenport, Johnathan Edwards, Pierson, Saybrook, and Trumbull. Another is going up on the site of Berkeley Oval, and two more will be carved out of the present buildings of the Sheffield Scientific School. With the twenty millions which Edward Stephen Harkness lavished on his Alma Mater, Yale has been able to build five out of the present seven units new, the other two being made out of the Harkness Quadrangle...
Doctor Monica (adapted by Laura Walker from the Polish of Marja M. Szczepkowska; Robert Martin, producer). The oval, heavy-eyed face of Alia Nazimova is now lined and pouched with old hysterias. Her mouth pulls naturally down at the corners. Her pictures make her look either like the bedraggled murderess at the scene of the crime or like Mary, Queen of Scots. Yet the baroque stumblings, wrist-wavings, jaw-droppings, head-wagglings with which Miss Nazimova documents Doctor Monica seriously involved Manhattan audiences in a play that should have been a dull and outdated feminist tract...
...cellophane wrapper peeled halfway down and whose wheat embargo was one of the starkest symptoms of the matter they had all come to discuss. Accompanied by big, rawboned George Peek and cadaverous Secretary Wallace, their briefcases bulging with statistics, they were shown up the broad stairs to the Oval Room where President Roosevelt awaited them...