Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind is clear, his convictions are resolute. The war therefore has brought out the best that was in him, and he has become what he might always have been but was not, the President and not a factional leader. . . . The popular confidence which he has been earning since he rose to the occasion of the war will grow greater as he holds himself firmly to the line he has so wisely taken. An inevitable and necessary corollary will be a renunciation of a third term, not in ambiguous language, but in plain words like Washington...
Last week the strike of the United Automobile Workers (C. I. O.) had easily broken the Abie's Irish Rose record held by General Motors' strike (44 days in 1937), and gloomy Chrysler dealers were wondering if it would run as long as Tobacco Road. Adamant sat big Tough Guy Herman L. Weckler, 49, almost six feet, almost 200 pounds, Chrysler's formidable, nimble-minded operating vice president. Adamant too sat bigger Tough Guy Richard T. Frankensteen, 6-feet-1, 220 pounds, onetime University of Dayton tackle, aggressive, teddybear chief...
...Paris and Barcelona, Picasso painted the sombre, introspective canvases of his "Blue Period." By 1904 he returned to live in Paris, permanently, and in swift succession followed the "Harlequin," "Rose" and "Negro" periods. By 1908 he was pioneering in cubism, with a side foray into pasted paper compositions. Picasso's seven years' designing for the Russian Ballet, beginning in 1917, led him into a neo-classical realism, culminating in the sculptural Three Graces (see cut) of 1924. Year later his classicism came to a violent end with his painting, The Three Dancers (see cut), which left...
...series was resumed after a two-year break when most college men were abroad attending to Europe's affairs, the men who came back were more than the "average" college man. When they started to roll they didn't like to be stopped, and Harvard's Rose Bowl team finally won 10 to 3, with Eddie Casey performing...
Nobody talked, and the sound got louder. They all sat on the benches listening to Dick. Then Torby rose and called everybody, opening the door...