Word: rolles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the F.B.I, closed in on Banker Crowe. Getting panicky, he had abandoned his new car, bought another only to abandon it too. He settled down in Daytona Beach, to loll on the beaches and roll around the bars. In a bar they arrested...
Rankin expected them to do: an ignominious somersault. On two roll calls, the House reversed itself, voted to keep Rankin's proposition alive. Crowed Rankin: "A revival of righteousness...
...unprecedented scale of the bill, he moved to kill it outright. In the first showdown, the House voted twice to do so, but on standing and teller votes in which names are not recorded. Slick Parliamentarian Rankin was not to be licked so easily. Immediately, he demanded a roll call...
...third day of bitter debate, a thrice-wounded World War II veteran, Texas Democrat Olin Teague, moved again to kill the bill. His white hair on end, ranting John Rankin demanded a roll call and pleaded: "Do not shut the door of hope in the faces of those old men who fought World War I." As the ayes and nays of the final roll call droned on, the House was so tensely quiet that the click of the clerk's mechanical hand-counter was audible in the galleries. By a single vote, 208 to 207, the House had finally...
...there is one thing Colin Middleton can't abide, it's "this long-haired, corduroy cult of artists." The stocky Irish painter prefers to wear his own hair trimmed short and to roll about Belfast and Dublin in hand-woven tweed plus-fours, red suede shoes and a black beret. His would be a notable figure in any landscape; in Ireland, which has produced hardly any painting worth the name,* Middleton is a current sensation...