Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...votes, and that the government had no money to spare for the bonus proposal. But when the Socialists forced an open roll-call vote and Adenauer's name was called as the first on the alphabetical list, the Chancellor did not dare oppose the bill. He rose and weakly voted "/a." The other Christian Democrat deputies followed suit...
Ulen has three men working out to fill the gap, Rose Vielman, Dick Wheeler, and Mike Siner. Bob Brown may be able to help next term, but the coach doesn't anticipate enough improvement by any of these men to make the Crimson a strong contender in the breaststroke and the medley relay...
...auction in Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries seven years ago, Showman Billy Rose thought that a Frans Hals painting was his for $20,000. But from the auctioneer's pulpitlike rostrum, Parke-Bernet's President Hiram H. Parke sedately cajoled more bids. "What's the matter," called Rose, "you got a stiff arm?" Not until the price had risen another $10,000 did Parke's arm loosen up enough to bring down the hammer and sell the painting to Rose...
...Hiram Parke's party were such art patrons as Gypsy Rose Lee, Actress Madeleine Carroll, and International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas J. Watson. Last week many of the guests returned for the first sale in Parke-Bernet's new auction room (seating capacity 600). Up on the stage went 61 paintings by Rubens, Romney, Hobbema and others; when the hammer fell on the last of them, a total of $46,690 had been paid out. On succeeding days there were sales of jewelry once worn by James B. ("Diamond Jim") Brady, paintings and sculpture collected by Cinema...
...such cases was to hold the death rate down to 20%. Last week, after listening to a pessimistic summary of these facts, doctors at the American Academy of Pediatrics convention in San Francisco heard some unexpected good news. Dr. Louis K. Diamond of Boston Children's Hospital rose from the audience and said quietly: "I would be remiss if I did not report some new developments...