Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief among Dr. Hyde's Presidential qualifications are: 1) He is old and normally would not serve more than his first term, thereby leaving room for some younger man-like Prime Minister de Valera-to take his place seven years hence; 2) he is a Protestant and as a Protestant President of an overwhelmingly Catholic country may help to persuade the 1,290,000 inhabitants of stubbornly independent, strongly Protestant Northern Ireland that in a political union with Eire (strongly urged by de Valera) no Protestant would have anything to fear; 3) although an Irish nationalist...
Even more frustrating than the lamp corner in many department stores is the room where second-rate reproductions of third-rate paintings are customarily sold under the name of Art. In the last few years, however, stores have taken steps to make their art departments at least as interesting as their advertising, and last week in Manhattan the John Wanamaker store cut loose with nothing less than the second annual exhibition of the American Artists' Congress. Wanamaker patrons in search of home furnishings were thus led to see some 235 examples of the livest professional work being done...
...might try to hire as doorkeepers in the house of the Lord on copy desks and in editorial chairs men who are free to make decisions . . . not controlled by an itch to move to the next higher desk by pleasing his High Potency who sits in the mahogany paneled room in front of the front of the front office. If owners would encourage a little chronic arthritis of the knee in the lower realms of reporting and copyreading we might come out from the clouds of suspicion that envelop our noble profession at the moment...
Flames, spreading from one exploding fuel tank to another, licked rapidly upwards to the ship's luxurious superstructure. In the grand salon Guy Arnoux' lacquered panels of the Marquis de Lafayette winning the American Revolution cracked and sizzled. An Aubusson tapestry in the tea room, showing Washington's Mount Vernon in gay reds and blues, was soon so much burnt string. Firemen hurried aboard and hurried off again, intimidated by the explosions. In the morning all that remained of the Lafayette was a hot mass of twisted metal...
...will both reach Chicago in record schedule time of 16 hours. Neither line will use radically new engines, will simply put new harness on Iron Horses. The cars, however, will be a departure. Both trains will have "roomette" Pullman cars (TIME, Dec. 13), and will be the first all-room trains...