Word: public
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gang, fighting an intangible rebellion, is bound together by intangible ties of friendship for and trust in the old man. That such a bloc, so guided, can get results was shown last week: the President abandoned his plan, opposed by Garner, Harrison & Co., to increase the limit of the public debt...
...etiquette a President's wife is usually as sacred as a President, in the Washington smartchat The Senator Helen Essary, wife of the Baltimore Sun's longtime Washington Correspondent Jesse Frederick Essary, coolly observed: "History has marked Woodrow Wilson as a hero. The intimate story of his public and personal . . . life should not have been written by a frivolous wife...
...solitary self, for enthusiasm has never approached the leprous about Marsden Hartley. A steadfast New England eccentric, whose writings and paintings made sense first to Alfred Stieglitz in 1909, Artist Hartley sits in Maine apainting in the summer and in a Manhattan room ascribbling in the winter, with no public attention what ever. Last week at 61, weathered, heavyset, bright-eyed Marsden Hartley had his 25th one-man show at the Hudson D. Walk er Gallery and made something...
Without, some 200,000 people packed St. Peter's Square, eager to see a Pope crowned in public for the first time since 1846 (before the Popes became "prisoners" in the Vatican). The people waited patiently while, within, Pius XII went through long rituals. At last the Pontiff appeared on St. Peter's balcony. The great moment arrived. Cardinal Deacon Caccia-Dominioni chanted "Accipe tiaram" (Receive the tiara). The crowd below saw the Cardinal lift the gem-studded, beehive-shaped triple crown of the papacy and place it on the head of its wearer. Then the multitude dropped...
...14th-Century Italy, public dissections were held in university halls and were occasions for great festivity. In the 16th Century, British surgeons were legally allowed to dissect dead bodies. Edinburgh surgeons were granted "ane condampnit [condemned] man after he be deid." But by the 18th Century, corpses were in such great demand by anatomists that "resurrection" of dead bodies "became a racket, the like of which Chicago never knew." Rival gangs robbed graves, lured victims to lonely inns, strangled them, sold the remains to innocent doctors. Londoners sang the popular ballad of Mary's Ghost, complaint of a resurrected...