Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past has seen many & many a crime conference and the future will probably see many more, but last week's was designed to be different. When President Roosevelt rose to address the opening session he found himself speaking not only to an audience of Democratic prosecutors, police chiefs and social workers, but to such tail-coated Republicans as onetime Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley and onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Like other Presidents before him, Mr. Roosevelt cried for national cooperation in a national war against the underworld, declared: "Crime is a symptom of social disorder...
Amid cheers and stamping at this amiable retreat by the Lord High Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice rose from where he had been sitting just back of Lord Reading. "As we have agreed on what is really fundamental," he intoned with returning dignity, "let us make peace and get on with our work." In a few minutes the Lords slipped the amended bill through second reading. Then, as the House adjourned, the Lord High Chancellor, preceded by the Purse Bearer, preceded in turn by the Sergeant-at-Arms carrying the Mace, made the most unusual gesture of stopping...
...peak. In Manhattan there were no less than 70 exhibitions in progress. The public could see and buy practically anything it wanted. On 57th Street Edward Bruce was exhibiting the landscape technique and Chinese perspective he developed under the watchful eye of Maurice Sterne. Sir Francis Rose, Gertrude Stein's latest painter-protege, was showing his sultry canvases. The Museum of Modern Art was aflame with Van Goghs, Cezannes, Toulouse-Lautrecs. At the New School for Social Research Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Robert Brackman, John Sloan and Alexander Brook were impressing their pupils with their craftsmanship...
...fired the starting gun. Temperamental little Alfred Letourner, furious with his onetime teammate, harassed Marcel Guimbretiere mercilessly until that rider withdrew, 15 laps behind. For periodic sprints, spectators offered, instead of the customary $25, miscellaneous premiums: a dozen lobsters, a dinner with champagne, a set of tires, a red rose, a return bus ticket to Buffalo...
...York City subways. No one had forgotten his subsequent practice of arresting subway smokers on the spot, or the occasion when he struck a cigaret from the lips of a fellow-passenger in a Pullman washroom. When the 40 had drained their glasses of grapefruit juice, up rose Mrs. Audrey Fiedler to tell how Dr. Pease adopted her four years ago, saved her from eight drug-dosing physicians...