Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grateful for myself and for a great many future Presidents," said Franklin Roosevelt as he accepted from Maker Theodore Steinway a new mahogany piano with legs carved like eagles to replace the gold monstrosity that has stood in the East Room since...
...Legation in London, ordered to remove resigned President Benes' portrait, complied. A second order, requiring removal of a portrait of Jan's father, was not immediately obeyed. At last Jan himself volunteered, silently lifted his father's picture from the wall, bowed, left the room. Last week there was no longer a place for able Jan in the diplomatic service. On January 1 he will move out of the Legation in Grosvenor Place, has no other plan than a projected two-month trip...
...Derrydale Press. Offices of The Derrydale Press are a paneled dining room in an old brownstone mansion off Manhattan's Park Avenue. Unforewarned, an old-line author would probably think he had stumbled into the home of some eccentric country gentleman. Like as not he would be sniffed by a bird dog. On the reception table is sometimes a bag of quail. The stenographer keeps her clips and pins in a dry-fly box. The bookkeeper uses a dipsy (sinker) for a paperweight...
...interests of research, and purely for the satisfaction of intellectual curiosity, fifteen men in graduate English are unearthing closet dramas of dubious purity, in fortnightly readings in the Widener Poetry Room...
According to one of the group, Arnold Kenseth, assistant in English and Curator of the Poetry Room, the works are "good spicy melodrama with enough 'body' for a masculine audience." Theodore Wood, Jr. 2G, who has been a consistent leading man when parts are drawn from a hat on "production nights" was more explicit. "It's good rugged stuff--all sorts of words are used without a blush." Wood did not explain whether it was the play or the players that did not "blush...