Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debit side of the Stratton ledger showed some substantial items. He wiped out a Stevenson increase of $8,000,000 a year in truck license fees, an act that his opponents and even some of his friends said was an unmerited reward to trucking interests for supporting him last year. Some Illinois political observers thought that Stratton had also traded away too many of his aims, e.g., reform of the antiquated judicial system, to get his reapportionment bill through. But Stratton insisted that he would fight for judicial reform in the next session of the legislature. Welfare and education leaders...
...troops marched out, bands playing a march fittingly entitled The World Turned Upside Down, and stacked their arms. The war, for all practical purposes, was over. "A System of Policy." About to leave the Army, Washington wrote (in a letter presented last week to Princeton University) : "Having no reward to ask for myself, if I have been so happy as to obtain the approbation of my countrymen, I shall be satisfied. It still rests with them to compleat my washes by adopting such a system of Policy as will ensure the future reputation, tranquility, happiness and glory of this extensive...
Pinups in Palaces. Among the most notable items in the show: a heroic Judith and Holofernes by Rubens, a precise and touching portrait of a half-nude woman by Rembrandt, a vicious Hogarth called The Reward of Cruelty, which shows the dissection of a murderer's corpse in gruesome detail. The exhibit also shows that, once they had learned their anatomy, many artists proceeded to paint the human form not as it was but as they thought it ought to be. The Fontainebleau school (started in the 16th century) created elegant cheesecake pinups of an elongated grace, their charms...
Cheers in the Streets. His reward for a lifetime of doing his job well came in the Silver Jubilee celebration of 1935, the year before he died. Drawn by four greys with postilions, the King and his Queen drove around the poorer quarters of London, through Battersea, Kennington and Lambeth, Limehouse and Whitechapel. Everywhere, his subjects turned out to applaud and cheer...
...great distinction, except that he had one of the most mellifluous speaking voices in British public life. Attorney General under Labor's Ramsay MacDonald, Solicitor General in Churchill's wartime coalition government, he was finally named Lord Chancellor when Labor came to power in 1945, as a reward for party service...