Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a Senator's death, the Senate usually appoints a day when his friends may eulogize him. But when the Senate met at noon and his colleague, Mrs. Caraway, presented a resolution for a committee to supervise his funeral, 15 Senators rose one after another to pay spontaneous tribute to Joe Robinson. At the White House President Roosevelt, still in bed when the news was brought to him, rose on his elbow and dictated: "In the face of a dispensation so swift in its coming and so tragic in the loss it brings to the Nation...
...have but one meaning, that Franklin Roosevelt had determined to punish Mr. Van Nuys for daring to oppose him. Burning with anger, most of the Democratic Senators opposed to the bill promptly volunteered to go to Indiana and campaign for Mr. Van Nuys next year. Their anger soon rose to greater heights. Day before the Robinson funeral, the President wrote a letter to Senator Barkley who was spending the day at Hysong's funeral parlor...
Meanwhile Leader Blum had arrived quietly from Paris, his secretaries exuding confidence and saying, "Just wait and see." After some hours of Congress wrangling, Socialist Blum rose in the late afternoon, introduced himself with a sentence which set every cartoonist in France to scratching: "I shall not speak as God or as Caesar, but as for my stewardship as Premier for 13 months, I do not think that the record...
...taken-for-a-ride by uniformed guards of the Madrid Government. Its head then as now was President Don Manuel Azana who last week was in Valencia. Few days after the Rightists mourned Calvo Sotelo, they celebrated with bullfights and fiestas last week the day on which they rose against Republicans, Socialists, Anarchists and Communists of Spain. Last week British-owned ore mines near Bilbao (now Rightist) had taken from them the first shipload of ore dispatched to Adolf Hitler...
...four canons living within the Close of Silbury Cathedral, The Canon was short, paunchy, 60-year-old Carmichael, who after 24 years of devoted service embroils the Cathedral in the worst mess that ever rose out of a canon's past. An unbending traditionalist, he fidgets through the first scene with misgivings about the new Dean-a rawboned, sympathetic Cambridge scholar named Mallinson, whose wife, a tall, witty, Virginia Woolf sort of character, is the author's voice for a detached account of Cathedral life. Added to these central characters are the staff of functionaries who make...