Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the sound and fury of his performance reached a new crescendo. On Sunday night he scheduled a 30-minute speech before both houses of the legislature, wound up delivering a 2-hr. 16-min., arm-waving, name-calling harangue. He fumed about influence-peddling under the Capitol roof and roundly lashed such former allies as his ex-law partner, Clem Sehrt of New Orleans, and Leander H. Perez, the powerful political boss and district attorney of Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes. Said Earl of Perez (who once played a key role in saving Huey from impeachment): "He would...
...embracing awareness of the meaning c-Christian pity. It is true that most of these poems, some of them rich in language and nearly all steeped in emotion, are bearish on the human condition. No one reading them or seeing Williams' latest play (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) is apt to suppose that Tennessee Williams is changing his point of view. But not even Williams can stew complacently in pessimism all the time. He knows that there really are destinations other than despair, and finds that
...potential nominees for Secre tary of the Interior, and now the President had made up his mind. His choice was a man who had never been mentioned in public speculation about the job. The name: Fred Seaton. Said Seaton last week, after the appointment was announced: "The White House roof fell...
Since most of the work will be done in the contractor's shop and then applied directly to the building, there should be no disruption in the building's use. In addition, the necessary scaffolding will be placed on the platform which is the base of the roof, and thus will not interfere with entrance into Memorial Hall...
...land on its tail -a stunt that is still not easy for the less critical, propeller-driven Pogo. Instead, they think, it will hover near the ground, nose upward, and then slowly move under an overhead framework, from which it will suspend itself like a bat landing on a roof of a cave...