Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate was considering a bill appropriating $50,000,000 for crop, feed and seed loans to farmers. Senator after Sena tor was rising to put in good word, to make a friendly gesture towards his constituents, when Carter Glass of Virginia rose with a sly light in his sharp...
...below Cairo were in great danger. For that reason Memphis expected a flood 5 to 10 ft. above all previous records. For that reason 50,000 refugees from the lowlands were streaming into Memphis. Down at New Orleans the Bonnet Carre Spillway was opened two days before the water rose high enough to flow through it. First break in the Mississippi's walls came in a secondary levee at Bessie, Tenn., a few miles from Tiptonville, sent the flood surging across to cut off a bend in the river threatening little damage unless the onrush should weaken the levee...
...Elizabeth the Sovereign, and last week her father asked Parliament to enact a Regency Bill under which, in case of "the demise of the Crown," the next member of the Royal Family in line for the Throne, "excluding minors" (i.e., excepting Princess Elizabeth, 10, and her sister Princess Margaret Rose, 6), should automatically become the Regent. This would mean that the death of King George would make his brother the Duke of Gloucester the sole Regent. This was a great surprise, for it had been expected that strong-minded Queen Elizabeth and strong-minded Queen Mother Mary would sit with...
...Home Secretary Sir John Simon, long England's highest-priced lawyer, was forced by the questions of M.P.'s last week to advise the House of Commons whether or not the Throne would be inherited jointly by both Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Reason for this question: when there is no male heir to a British peerage it descends equally upon female heirs who are sisters, and the House was much disquieted last week by the thought that England might some day have two Queens at once, after the manner of the two simultaneous Kings of Barataria...
...regarded as a rabbit in a box with a rattlesnake, that the crowd lived the dread of every second with Pastor, watching the quick twitching motions of Louis' fists, starting, like a snake's tongue, only to draw back. Such was the suspense that a cheer rose with the gong that ended the first round. When Louis did start hitting, the agile Pastor made him miss, right, left and right again (see cut). The suspense continued right through the nine remaining rounds despite increasing boos at Louis for not being able to overtake the retreating, ducking Pastor. Loudest...