Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order for Joe Byrns's state funeral, recessed for an hour to await distinguished guests. Many Representatives stayed in their seats, talked quietly as the galleries filled. At 11:30 a U. S. Navy band struck up a muted tune in the Speaker's lobby. The House rose as a flag-draped coffin was rolled in, placed among the flowers piled high against the rostrum, opened. For half an hour Representatives, clerks, pages shuffled by it. Then Speaker Bankhead's gavel rapped again and tall, grey Chaplain James Shera Montgomery, in flowing cutaway, began a prayer. When...
...complete control of the rest of Nicaragua was the National Guard, created and trained by U. S. Marines during the seven-year U. S. occupation, and its General Anastasio Somoza, who had deployed his men around the base of the volcano. No murmur of protest at these activities rose from the Nicaraguan populace, who chose to regard the affair strictly as a quarrel between Somoza and Sacasa for the right to name Nicaragua's next President...
...rose Mrs. Grace H. Brosseau, onetime D.A.R. president, now a W. I. A. director, who got a divorce from Mack Truckman Alfred Joseph Brosseau in 1930 because he slapped her face when she refused him the key to their wine cellar. Small, grim, wiry Mrs. Brosseau said that whenever the U. S. had "paused on the long trail of progress," women had been "right there with their first-aid kits. The state at which we have arrived," she cried, "did not spring up in a night. It dates back to the Secret Order of the Illuminati, which was organized...
Nothing rebels: the ascendant rose must halt...
WIND WHICH MOVED A SHIP-Sophia Cleugh-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Witty enough to recall Rose Macaulay, too superficial to survive the comparison, Author Cleugh recounts the amorous and professional adventures of a beauteous, strongwilled, British concert pianist...