Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gallery are the collection of U.S. sculpture, the department of decorative arts (European styles), the Altman collection (Chinese decorated and monochrome porcelains, paintings, rock crystals, Benvenuto Cellini's cup, Renaissance decorative arts, oriental rugs, French art) and five galleries of prints...
...Senate? ¶ Debated the Italian debt settlement (see below). ¶ Debated farm relief measures. ¶ Passed two bills for the beautification of the Capital. One, carrying $1,900,000, was for a connecting link between Rock Creek and Potomac parks. The other extended the powers of the Park Commission. (Bills went to the House for perfunctory agreement to a few amendments.) ¶ Debated, in connection with appointment of Thomas F. Woodlock to Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, April 5), the question of absolute secrecy at executive sessions of the Senate. Republican Leader Curtis promised prompt committee consideration of a proposal...
...there were to be so man" rich men, so many poor men; so many "prep-school" men and so many men from public school; so many Northerners, Southerners, Westerners. As if this leveling were not sufficient, the "aristocratic" upper-class eating clubs were to be abolished. That was the rock on which he split. Bad as is the club or fraternity system in all American universities--with its overemphasized and largely unjust distinction between the ins and the outs the great body of graduates knew that it was more wisely controlled at Princeton then elsewhere and that at worst...
...reception room; then she went to luncheon with Mrs. Alice C. Henniger, local music teacher (who discovered her voice). At five o'clock she was guest of honor at a high green tea of the Henniger School of Music; next day she gave a concert at the Little Rock High School (which she used to attend when she could steal a morning from the Pastor's housework) ; she shook hands with everybody at a reception given in her honor at the finest hotel in Little Rock. Governor Terral said...
...woman of the world now. And yet-when Mary Lewis had tried to render "Home Sweet Home" at her concert, some of the song had seemed to cause her throat a strange contraction. Maybe it was the air, maybe it was the thought that she lived in Little Rock no longer, but right in the middle of that most optimistic of songs Mary Lewis broke down, wept...