Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico. The reef, named Dry Tortugas by Ponce de Leon because it swarmed with turtles, consisted of ten keys-strung ten miles east & west. With tremendous enthusiasm and at tremendous cost the Government began to transport plaster, mortar, bricks from the North. Slowly on 25-acre Garden Key rose Fort Jefferson-barracks for six companies, 18 sets of officers' quarters, a hospital, a chapel-all surrounded by a huge wall jutting with bastions. It was a sight to swell every U. S. heart. But as time passed its Army builders began to ask: What use was the fortress? Finding...
...performance audience and players rose as one man to honor the world's greatest conductor. But Toscanini rapped quickly for attention and proceeded to make something vital and thrilling out of Bruckner's long-winded Seventh Symphony. When the performance was ended the audience stayed to cheer but the conductor plucked at the concertmaster's sleeve, his cue for the players to clear the stage. For Toscanini, who scorns the dessert of applause, the evening ended with the last mighty unison of the Bach-Respighi Prelude & Fugue...
...richest, St. Paul's Episcopal the most swank. Last week at St. Paul's the Episcopal diocese of Tennessee was holding its annual convention, and rich Zeboim Charles Patten, chairman of the church's endowment corporation, was telling assembled laymen and clergy about investments. Up rose Rev. Alfred Loaring-Clark, diocesan chairman of religious education...
...deep silence a vote was taken. The result was 26,589-to-815 in favor of liquidating the business of the company, distributing its assets among the stockholders. No one moved or spoke when the announcement was made. Then President Lennihan rose to assure those present that the directors would do their best to prevent a hasty sale of the plant, would try to dispose of it as a unit. That night nearly one-fifth of the people of Southbridge crawled into bed with nothing to look forward to but the dole...
Even Huey Long had something to say about the World Court. During the tirade he spoke about "these rascals we have here." Senator Lewis, of Illinois, rose quickly to his feet, deeply chagrined, and asked, "May I take the liberty to suggest to the able Senator from Louisiana that when he makes the observation 'those rascals we have here,' he does not really mean physically here in the United States Senate?" Huey hastily replied "Oh, the Senator knows that I by all means exclude the Senate, and exclude myself...