Word: rest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engaging frankness of this engraved announcement titillated Washington last week. It indicated that the result of Franklin Roosevelt's one Purge success was to supply Washington with one more high-powered lobbyist. For the rest, that success looked singularly hollow: the important House Rules Committee was in such a mess that the New Deal gave up hope of organizing it before Congress met this week. Illinois' old Representative Adolph Joachim Sabath to whom chairmanship of the committee was scheduled to pass, by seniority, because of recalcitrant Mr. O'Connor's defeat, faced an unhappy situation...
Dean, whose baseball career appeared deemed last summer by a shoulder ailment, was elated by the turn of events. He breathed new confidence when doctors told his new X-Ray examinations showed that the muscle tear was healing "very satisfactorily" and that with at least six weeks more rest he should be able to take his regular turn when the season starts...
...Norwegian, Skipper Clifton Smith pouring out oil to smooth the way for another lifeboat. In the early morning one of the Smaragd's boats made it with seven men. Then the Schodack lowered a second boat, reached the Smaragd and took off the captain and his family, the rest of the crew, two pet dogs. Radioing his owners, the Cosmopolitan Shipping Co., Inc., Captain Smith was brief and businesslike. "It was tough going. . . . We will need a new lifeboat...
...skinny, frail moppet, whose father was rural superintendent of schools. But he had plenty of nerve, and on Hallowe'en night (one of the funniest as well as the least printable episodes in the book), or on their petty thieving raids, Mark was as tough as the rest...
...burned its subjects without even a semblance of justice (there is no recorded case of not guilty under the Inquisition) for refusing to swear undivided allegiance ; how Edward I expelled the Jews from England in 1290, taking their houses, their money, some times (accidentally) their lives. For tile rest, Professor Coulton himself describes the book as a scaffolding by which young students may climb to chisel details on the monument of knowledge. The analogy is poor. No scaffolding was ever built so meticulously from such solid materials...