Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nominating committee's secretary announced three votes for Mrs. Gallagher, two for Mrs. Imhof. Up rose an Imhofian and proved that the secretary had quite twisted the votes. They actually stood three for Imhof, two for Gallagher...
...Donaghy '29 rose three points to maintain his berth in second place in the team average, with a mark of 358. H. W. Burns '28 is still third with 310, five notches above his last standing. These three are the only members of the regular team who are in the select 300 circle. W. B. Jones '28, who did not see service in the last three games, is near the verge with 297, while J. P. Chase '28, William Ullman '27, and Captain Isadore Zarakov '27, follow closely, with 294, 293, and 291 respectively. W. W. Lord...
From 1847 to 1851 and from 1857 to 1861 United States Senator Jefferson Davis rose to a position of leadership among the Southern Senators...
...bill to curtail debate and force a vote within 16 days on the second reading of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 9).* This procedure, cloture, is so seldom employed in England that the Laborites puffed and huffed with indignation. Their leader, John Robert Clynes,† rose dark with wrath, declaring that the Opposition was being "insulted by the audacity of the Government" in proposing to cut short debate upon "a bill which is not only one of the worst pieces of legal draftsmanship on record, but moreover so mangled by amendments that the Government ought...
...that during his long training as a Navy officer he became enamored of the daughter of a certain Admiral. The affair came to nothing; and it is notable that His Majesty has not given an ever willing public the opportunity to forgive a few royal indiscretions beneath the rose. In other respects the King and Emperor is a Navy man to his fingertips. Admiral Earl Beatty and a few other titled salts are among his closest friends...