Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eloquent; three suicides, a rape, a robbery and a final thundering climax in which a crazy policeman attired in priestly garments shoots at a thief, hits a can of nitroglycerin and makes the devastation complete. There are a number of death scenes in which characters in their final agony rise as sturdily as opera singers to express their wrath, their views of the world and their lost hopes in prose poetry that owes a good deal to Thomas Wolfe and James Joyce. There is even a scene showing Calvin Coolidge telling homespun jokes in the State House...
...many localities the beef campaigns and others which followed had a long-range effect not originally foreseen. In a campaign for lamb, prices continued to rise for six months after the promotion slopped. In pushing grapefruit, one chain company developed so many new customers that its sales rose 1,695% m rural territories. A new market was opened up. One farm woman wrote: "I boiled the thing [grapefruit] for three hours and a half and it was just as tough afterward as when I began...
This conflict between ultra-modernity and Victorian morality, thought far from a new theme, is handled with such winning freshness and gentle sophistication, and such fascinating situations and characters rise out of the melee that extraordinary entertainment is guaranteed...
...late Joseph Taylor Robinson as Majority Leader of the Senate. Leader Barkley was paying for a serious mistake. Last August in the closing days of Congress, when every minute of the Senate's time was plotted out, he fell asleep at the switch. Senator King who was supposed to rise at a certain moment to present the District of Columbia Airport Bill, missed his cue and before Senator Barkley woke New York's Senator Wagner had the floor. Senator Wagner brought up the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Although Alben Barkley has cast a good Southern vote against anti...
Like her parents' Rise of American Civilization, like her husband's History of Militarism, Miriam Beard's book ends inconclusively. The composite businessman who emerges from its cluster of facts is a puzzling figure. Not a severe critic, the author points out that in comparison with feudal lords and warriors, businessmen have been humane. They have robbed widows & orphans and sold rotten ships to their governments from the Punic to the Civil War, but they have not burned rival salesmen at the stake. A maniac might get to be a monarch, she says, but he could never...