Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gable in the title rose plays the historical part with sincerity but is hopelessly miscast. Miss Loy as the attractive Mrs. O'Shea who disrupts the unity of the Irish Home Rule Party looks fetching in tears and bustles, but her presence on the screen doesn't seem to make much difference one way or another...
...power plants, denying an immediate review of Electric Bond & Share Co.'s test of the Utility Holding Company Act, etc. For another 25 minutes the Justices sat while nearly 100 applicants for permission to practice before the Court were introduced, and sworn in in batches. Then the Court rose. Mr. Van Devanter stopped to shake the proud hand of a page boy. A year's work was done. The Justices of the Supreme Court disappeared between the curtains...
Southern Baptists. In New Orleans met 6,000 members of the Southern Baptist Church whose enrollment in 1936 rose by nearly 100,000 to 4.482,315, whose income increased $2,000,000 to $29,188,687. The Southern Baptists passed the usual resolutions on liquor, armaments, etc., added newer ones suggesting that "surely 16 is young enough" for girls to marry, and condemning smoking for women, preachers and other church workers. Unscheduled, a 28-year-old minister of Anniston, Ala. named Rev. Charles R. Bell Jr. arose to cry: "We must face the real issues of life. ... I cannot adopt...
...even a front-line sentinel. The tide of literary battle had flowed over him, left him well in the rear, guarding nothing more strategic than a few abandoned ammunition dumps. How his militant literary career soared so far is the explicit theme of Before I Forget; why it never rose far is the implicit question which between-the-line readers may be able to answer for themselves...
...minute of the voyage. The sea was glassy-smooth, the other passengers were mostly likable, the sunsets were tremendous. Standish was so bursting with health and the love of life that he even got up early sometimes to watch the sun rise. The 13th day out of Hawaii he rose before dawn, dressed with his usual care, went forward to his favorite sunrise-watching spot, a door in the bow about 15 ft. above the water, kept open because of the halcyon weather. There he stood and watched the sun rise. As he turned to go, his foot slipped...