Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roll call began. The galleries were mouse-quiet. As the vote seesawed back & forth, many a Senator kept his own tally. Six times the vote was tied. The final count: 43-to-41 against taking up the nomination now. (Actually, the final vote was a 42-to-42 tie, but Ohio's Bob Taft, though bitterly anti-Wallace, switched his in a vain effort to force a reconsideration.) The pro-Wallace vote was made up of ten Republicans, one Progressive and 32 Democrats. The men who had saved Wallace fell into three groups: 1) out & out New Dealers...
Toward the end of his pleasant life, Artist Mount flirted with spiritualism. Several of his supramundane gambits made copy for newsmen of the 1860s. The New York Evening Post once gravely reported: "We met him one day in Broadway, and he ... took from his hat a roll of papers filled with etchings by Rembrandt, who had the previous night appeared to him. . . . These . . . were probably Mr. Mount's own work, but produced under some spiritualistic hallucination."* The old painter's preoccupation with Rembrandt was deeper than the Post knew. A few years before his death from pneumonia...
Thus last week, by a simple roll-call vote, did Sergei Vladimirovich Simansky (Alexei), 67, become the 13th Patriarch of the Holy Orthodox Eastern Catholic and Apostolic Church. This week he was crowned in the illuminated forest which arc lights and laurel decorations had made of Bogoyavlensk Cathedral. Unseen silver bells tinkled, rose to full tones as the Patriarch entered, wearing a white veil and miter, and a green silk robe with white and red stripes and golden cords over the shoulders. With the end of the elaborate service, Alexei's religious authority over 100,000,000 souls became...
...might well ask why it was not done long ago. WPB will tighten its control over the supply of cloth to converters and clothing manufacturers (TIME, Dec. 4). Cloth will be released only for the types of clothing WPB wants produced, and within certain price ranges. Meanwhile, OPA will roll back prices to 1943 levels. Thus WPB can force garment manufacturers to switch their output back to inexpensive underwear, shirts, house dresses and other scarce articles...
...smooth-surfaced canvases were standard O'Keeffe: quasi-mystical, highly polished designs inspired by New Mexican landscapes and still lifes. There was the bald roll and wrinkle of creviced hills, Black Place III, suggesting the convolutions of a human brain. There was the shock of a swatch of blue sky seen through the gape of sun-baked bones, Pelvis III. There also were canvases which seemed to represent nothing whatsoever in nature: skillfully colored symbolic forms that were sure to stir the imaginations of most gallerygoers...