Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middle Ages in the midst of Modern Times-arc lamps, newsreel cameras, a radio microphone hanging high above the chancel, pneumatic tubes to speed copy from the pressbox to the telegraphs downstairs (see p. 39). The crowd that rose in the Abbey to greet their King was aware of all this. Five months of intensive propaganda had told them what this 1937 Coronation was held for: a gorgeous and expensive pageant of the solidarity of the British Empire and the permanence of British institutions in a changing world. Most of them had read many times other details of the procession...
...forced them both to ride in a baggage car. As he talked, Rex, with even more eloquence, was thumping his bushy tail on the green committeeroom carpet. Seeing Eye dogs, declared Rex's master, were taught always to be friendly with everyone, unless commanded otherwise. Amiably Rex rose, stalked up to R. V. Fletcher, stuck out his paw. Grinning, the railway counsel unbent and shook the paw. Unseeing Dr. Claus continued his plea. The 13-month-old dog rolled over on his back, waved his paws, swished his tail. Dr. Claus stopped talking, unleashed the dog. With a bound...
...Agriculture appropriation bill last week, Idaho's conscientious Borah spotted an item of $1,000 for care of a herd of cattle in Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains. It had been recommended not by the Department of Agriculture but by the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Borah rose to question it. Up stood the item's sponsor, Oklahoma's handsome white-crested Elmer Thomas, to explain that the cattle were one of the last herds of longhorns left in the U. S. "These cattle are friends of mine," cried he. "I have been down to see them...
Message of They Gave Him A Gun, adapted from William Joyce Cowan's novel, is that war breeds gangsters. This not particularly startling thesis is elaborately worked out in connection with Rose Duffy (Gladys George), the hospital nurse who falls in love with Fred but marries Jimmy out of sympathy. When Fred encounters the young couple in the U. S. after the Armistice. Jimmy is running a protective association that gives him ample opportunity to keep up his target practice. Fred tells Rose and Rose tells the police. By this time, Jimmy's slightly Freudian affinity for guns...
...leather wastebaskets and bronze andirons, they saw enough to stock all the dealers in Manhattan. Of the great art which legend maintained was "Inisfada's" glory, they saw little. Artistically respectable by most current standards was the garden-sculpture of Malvina Hoffman, auctioned off in situ among the rose bushes. For the rest, it appeared that the Bradys, in their assiduous years of collecting, had amassed a store of art faintly reminiscent of the collection owned by Major Edward Bowes...