Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only too well Mary Norton realized that Barden's amendments would pass on the House floor with a whoop and a holler, in the present rattlesnake mood of that chamber...
...Heil was to get a bill introduced into the Wisconsin Senate to abolish the university's 14-man Board of Regents, replace it with a nine-man board, which the Governor would appoint. The Milwaukee Post reported that Governor Heil had said to a Senator: "If we can pass this regents bill, Brother Dykstra can look around for another job." The Senate did pass the bill, sent it to the Assembly. Last week the Assembly passed it, sent it back to the Senate with a minor amendment, which was expected to be quickly accepted...
...Association's Chairman Cornelius Newton Bliss. In reply, the Association (which has a lease for next season) asked for an option on the opera house for $1,500,000 (one-third cash). Should the option contract be approved by the box holders, the Metropolitan would once more publicly pass the tin cup, as it did to keep going in 1933-35. But this time the Metropolitan might well throw in its lot with The People, get the Diamond Horseshoe out of hock for good...
...Cinemactress Vivien Leigh (real name: Vivien Mary Hartley Holman) gave newsmen a sample of her synthetic Southern drawl: "Just think, honey, in only a week of studyin' Ah learned to speak this-a-way. They gave me a test and honest-to-God if Ah didn't pass just like that. Wasn't it lovely...
Over one 15,000-foot pass after another climbed Author Kaulback as spring melted the ice barriers in the rocky gorges. What finally defeated his quest for the source of the Salween was whiskers. Colleague John Hanbury-Tracy had grown a beard. A Tibetan official who had been in India and knew that Britons shave thought he was a Russian spy, and the expedition was held up until winter made the trip impossible. Though he failed to find the source of the Salween, Explorer Kaulback was comforted by the thought that "it still remains to be found by someone...