Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prayer over, Mr. Eddy walked out. Senator Harry W. Bolens, 75, who is famed for taking catnaps at his desk, rose like a pillar of fire, asked if Mr. Eddy were a "Christian gentleman," said: "I hope we never invite him to come again into the company of decent men." Thereupon the Senate's Chief Clerk told Mr. Eddy that he need not fill his next praying engagement...
...sooner had the Vagabond been shoved behind a pillar than the estimable Mr. Welles and Mr. Meredith appeared. Vag gave up all hopes of trying to reach the stage to ask a few of his erudite questions, as he would have been in shreds by the time he got there. Consequently, he became resigned and settled down to hear the proceedings...
...only interested in railroads, but a notable patron of the Railroad Y. M. C. A. One of the first beneficiaries of her charity was the U. S. Government, to which, in 1898, she gave $100,000 to help defray the expenses of "freeing" Cuba. She was also a pillar of the Red Cross, the D. A. R., the Dutch Reformed Church, and supported the American Tract Society in its efforts to reconvert Soviet Russia to Christianity...
...background to her novel, Author Turnbull saw some of the first coal mines opened in that section. Like many another child of Scotch-Irish farmers in the beautiful rolling hills of Westmoreland County, thrilled by the romance of Carnegie and Frick, she saw the coke ovens like a pillar of fire by night, the mine tippets a new wonder...
Premier Daladier has lengthened French working hours by scrapping the 40-Hour-Week Law in "industries vital to national safety." He has broken with the Communist Party, formerly a pillar of the French Popular Front coalition, to the delight of Berlin. And Premier Daladier has recognized the Italian conquest in Ethiopia by appointing Andre Frangois-Poncet to Rome as the first French Ambassador ever accredited to "Emperor Vittorio Emanuele." All this meant that France had been scared into swerving Right...