Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paying less & less attention to his material condition, Rembrandt worked faster & faster. When his son died, he wore his best to the grave, a ragged, fur-lined coat daubed with paint. A year later, a puff-eyed, firm-jawed 63-year-oldster. deserted except by a few kinswomen and the neighborhood Jews, he died. His fame as a painter had long since vanished into the attics of Amsterdam, apparently forever...
...hands of the Senate clock overlapped, Vice President Garner laid down his cigar, blew out a puff of smoke, brought his gavel down smartly...
...Roosevelt, Secretary Ickes, Senator Borah, Professor Irving Fisher and Mrs. J. Borden Harriman. At a hearing of the Illinois Senate committee investigating University of Chicago last month, Mrs. Dilling spent two hours exposing such "Reds" as Newton D. Baker, the late Jane Addams, Harold H. Swift ("the cream-puff type"), Louis D. Brandeis ("He contributes $100 a year to a filthy little Communist college down in Arkansas"). Then a little man in the rear of the committee-room whispered to his neighbor that the witness ought to be named Mrs. Dillinger instead of Mrs. Dilling. The neighbor, who happened...
Franklin D. Roosevelt can point with pride to the fact that, in the two years and four months since he took office, the breath of scandal has blown but two piddling puffs on his Administration. First puff was the flatulent product of that impressionable Gary, Ind. school superintendent, Dr. William Wirt. whose charges that the Brain Trust was all but in the pay of Moscow made a farcical Congressional investigation last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). Second puff flurried up portentously fortnight ago when Ewing Young Mitchell, whom the President had to oust as Assistant Secretary of Commerce because...
...weeks ago the same thing happened on a smaller scale in Providence and neighboring communities. The troublemaker in that situation was a small baker named Deschene who left a bucket of cream puff and éclair custard in the open where vermin could...