Word: phalanxes
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...with a sophisticated sneer. At last, the King appeared. The Aga Khan greeted him; Guitry sneered. The King smiled vaguely. While he dined hugely (poisson à la crème, veau à la crème, champignons à la crème, framboises à la crème), a phalanx of reporters and photographers waited in vain for the appearance of the King's current romantic interest, Narriman Sadek. The underground word was that she would not come to Deauville...
There was no comfort for Lucas in the results. An almost solid phalanx of Southern Democrats stood against him. Such Administration stalwarts as Tydings of Maryland and Frank Graham of North Carolina, who was engaged in a bitter primary fight, managed to be absent. Six Democrats from western and border states voted against cloture. Lucas was able to count only 19 Democrats in his camp. From the other side of the aisle, 33 Republicans, including the ailing Vandenberg, gave Lucas more embarrassment than satisfaction by coming out loud & clear for cloture; only six Republicans turned up on the side...
Steinmann entered the cage in awful silence. He tripped and quickly saved himself. The lions snarled, but none of them moved from the tight phalanx they had formed in the cage's center. Finally one jumped on a pedestal. "Bravo!" shouted Lawyer Valensi. Two minutes later another lion lazily climbed onto his pedestal. "Fini," cried Circus Master Bouglione. "Get him out of there. He doesn't know what he's doing. He'll make a buffet lunch for those lions...
...Thomas bill giving the President power to seize plants (usually a more potent weapon against management than labor). Florida's Spessard Holland wanted an amendment to do just the opposite and permit injunctions, but bar seizures. One after another, ideas were passionately debated, defeated by Taft's phalanx of Republicans and Southern Democrats. The fight was so close that Vice President Barkley flew back from the West Coast to be on hand to break...
Associative Living. The Phalanx association was started in 1843 by ten hardy families, followers of the French visionary Charles Fourier, who believed that the ills and harsh competitions of the world could be ended by "associative living." It began as a farming venture on 673 acres of rich land. As its population increased (top membership: 112 men, women & children), a gristmill and a smithy were added and the association bought a part interest in two steamboats to get their excess goods and produce to New York. They put the first packaged "name brand" cereals on the market and their stamped...