Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opponent was Texas' old, respected Hatton Sumners, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where the bill reposed. The Committee, horrified by the bill's proposed reforms, held a secret ballot, announced a vote of 14-to-10 to table the measure. Congressman Dempsey thereupon raised Congress' roof by announcing that 13 members told him afterwards they had voted for the bill. He started a petition to extricate the bill from the Committee. Embarrassed Congressmen stayed away from Mr. Dempsey's petition in droves. Back he went to the Committee members, wheedled, cajoled and bullied them...
...immeasurably talented Bix Beiderbecke. Readers raved over the novel; jazz musicians held it in thorough contempt.* Piano in the Band is like a roomful of rank amateurs through whose affectionate bloobs and bleatings may be heard, if faintly and scratchily, the record they are trying to duplicate: Tin Roof Blues. Whether readers can rave over it is doubtful. What musicians will think of the novel - since they are kind to the nonpretentious - is uncertain. But faulty as it is, it is warmly readable...
...seemed in danger of falling on Congress' head last week, so did the roof...
Last winter engineers had warned Congressmen that the Capitol roof badly needed repairs. Month ago, during a rainstorm while the House was in session, water pattered down on Speaker Bankhead's desk. To a deficiency bill, also passed at week's end in the closing session, the House added $585,000-to insulate itself against the weather...
...announced the start of a recruiting campaign, the formation of Local Security Corps, whose job was to beat off parachute invaders. The Irish Navy (three ships) expected shortly to double its forces. A department store in Dublin's O'Connell Street placed anti-aircraft guns on its roof...