Word: room
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desk in the blue-walled room stood a vase of roses; on the table behind a vase of gladioli. Signs of stress were an electrically tuned radio on a chair near the fireplace, another radio near Eddie Moore's door, a calendar from which careful Secretary Moore had forgotten to tear off the August sheet...
...Minister John Cudahy at Dublin was to determine and report just how the Athenia was sunk. Unshakable, unanimous belief of all hands was that a torpedo struck her just abaft amidships on the port side. Then, said Mr. Cudahy, she "was struck again, wrecking the engine room, by a projectile projected through the air." Mr. Kennedy's report said: "No witness heard a shell in the air; no witness heard a shell strike the ship ... no splash of the projectile was seen." But (according to one quartermaster): "The submarine conning tower [unmarked] broke surface about 800 yards...
...tapestry called Ocean Is Turbulent, which it had taken 4,060 Japanese craftsmen three years to make out of 2,450 bunches of gold thread and 85 shades of pure silk thread, and which the emissaries had expected to give Herr Hitler for his living room wall...
...frightfulness . . . again roams the seas. . . . This nation wants no war, but there is no question where its sentiments lie." Others, like the Baltimore Evening Sun, remained stiffly in the parlor: "Neutral, as a nation, we are. And neutral we must be. A nation cannot afford the luxury of living-room emotions...
...censors, 100 middle-aged gentlemen with blue pencils, sit in a room in the basement. Copy goes down to them by pneumatic tube. Cable dispatches they read and then pass on by teletype to cable offices. For correspondents who prefer to do their work in their own offices (and for laymen sending private messages) another 100-odd censors are on duty at the telegraph and cable companies...