Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's Guffey was not the only Senator who had been taken aback. Sena tor Lewis and others had speeches pre pared. But Vice President Garner, well aware that the Bill was sure to pass eventually, had timed the start of his steam roller accurately and gauged his colleagues' reaction to perfection. Prevailing mood of the Senate suddenly became one of over whelming relief, and laughter almost drowned out the angry voice of Senator Guffey still demanding to be recorded as against the Bill. With supreme assurance the Vice President dismissed the demand by shouting back: "The Senator...
...before, the last laugh may fall to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Senate may pass the Bill, but many observers believed no power on earth could hold Congress in session ten days after that, until the President's anticipated pocket veto expires. In that case Congress might never have a chance to override, even if the lobbyists were strong enough to round up two-thirds of both Houses...
...live in a new world,' he said. 'St. Bernards are killing little girls. Books, or what pass for books, are being photographed on microfilm. There is a cemetery I want to see,' he continued, 'a grove where ancient trees shelter the graves and throw their umbrage on the imponderable dead. The branches of these trees, my dear young man, are alive with loudspeakers. I believe Upper Montclair is the place. That is one reason for my departure-I have certain macabre pilgrimages to make, while the lustiness is still in my bones...
...Minnesota. Northward away from the declining sun the harvest will sweep until the snow flies around the threshing machines in Canada's Peace River district on the Arctic's frontier. Through vast areas of Canada's Prairie Provinces the harvest's conglomerate followers will pass swiftly, for those flat lands have been seared by drought, wasted by rust until the Dominion has resigned itself to the lightest wheat crop in modern years...
...Lena, by a Prix Goncourt winner (Captain Conan), is a War romance on the order of A Farewell to Arms, plus the sinister violence of plot inseparable from Balkan settings. Readers who stubbornly refuse to humor Balkan settings may call it merely macabre sex melodrama skilfully made up to pass as an indictment...