Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a hush in the upper chamber as Senator William Cabell Bruce, Democrat, of Maryland, rose to speak. Only Vice President Dawes and Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, who was author and co-author of such controversial measures as the 18th Amendment and the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, were present to listen to him. His words, however, were not hushed;* they were put into the Congressional Record and spread about by the press of the land; and that is what Senator Bruce wanted...
Score, Harvard 43, B. U. 20. Goals from floor, Green 6, Barbee 4, Malick 3, Leekley 3, Dorn 3, Lane, Vogel, O'Brien 3, Herbert 2, Cohen, Cotter, Goals from fouls, Dorn, Cohen 3, O'Brien. Herbert, August. Referee, H. J. Crazen. Timekeeper, W. R. Rose. Time of halves, 20 minutes...
Though such lively campaign utterances raised a furor of criticism, the electoral results showed 79 representatives potentially for repeal of the O. T. A. and only 32 left to support it. Within ten minutes after the returns were announced shares of Canadian Industrial Alcohol rose to a total increase in value of $3,200,000, and other Ontario distillery stocks similarly skyrocketed...
...agent had purchased, for $100,000, a rug once belonging to the late Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. The rug has a background of moss-green creepers, with orange-red stems, among which deer, gazelles, sheep, goats are pursued by lions and leopards.* There is a centre medallion of rose-crimson, with vine traceries in pink and silver around four hawklike birds...
...profits the first season of $60 apiece, which they spent on evening clothes and silk hats. By 1890 they were competing with Barnum & Bailey, whose circus they finally bought (1907) for $410,000, gaining thereby practical circus monopoly of the U. S. and Canada. During this material growth they rose from boyhood self-education to culture. Brother John (sole survivor) was recently revealed as an art collector (TIME, May 10); Robert, son of the late Charles, sings opera in Munich; wherever the circus of late years has gone, a private dining tent, with an English butler, has been...