Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Santa Monica! The most beautiful, the most desirable in all the whole wide world in which to live and to enjoy life in all its fullness, as it is meant for each human to do; where our folk go down the rose-strewn path of life hand in hand, facing the eternal sunset with a prayer of gratefulness to God on their lips for having made such a heaven on earth as Santa Monica...
Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley Jurney beckoned to onetime Judge Ritter and his attorneys. It was all over. The two attorneys rose, started for the door. Mr. Ritter remained seated with arms folded, as if his disgrace glued him to his chair. Finally he half rose, and for a moment seemed about to collapse. Then, with an effort, he stood erect, marched out of the Senate Chamber with a firm step. Newshawks crowded around asking questions. With a look of anguish in his eyes he declared: "I have nothing to say. God, can't you see why I have nothing...
Only dissatisfaction among the delegates was that the machinery was merely being oiled instead of put to use at once. When the question rose of how to get each state to chip in its "Stenographer's salary." up bounced State Senator Ralph Gilbert of Kentucky. Said he: "Gentlemen, I am a busy man. I didn't want to come to this meeting because I was so busy at home. We've had a lot of fine talk here about cooperation, but high sounding phrases aren't enough. I can get $5,000 from my legislature...
...water rose, forcing the trapped men away from their food line, Dr. Robertson guessed that they could hold out another ten or twelve hours. Soon he could hear the picks of the miners hacking frantically overhead, passing rock and dirt up to the surface by a human chain. Hospital kits were unpacked, stretcher-bearers stood ready as the tired rescuers, themselves threatened momentarily with collapse of their shaft, sent up word that they were "almost through...
...Germany's violation of the Locarno Pact." Except from Italy's point of view, this was hardly true. The original peace treaty with Turkey was the ignominious Treaty of Sévres which stripped Turkey and partitioned it into French and Italian "spheres of influence." Outraged Turks rose behind the "Grey Wolf" and proceeded to chase the invading Greek armies into the Aegean Sea. At Lausanne the Turks practically dictated their own terms, being far more ready to resume fighting than were the demobilized Allies. Lausanne booted out of the demilitarized zones the Allied occupation forces, abolished...