Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walsh, who is a lawyer by training, was admitted to the bar in 1897 after graduating from Holy Cross College and Boston University Law School. He subsequently became a member of the State House of Representatives and in 1913 was made Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. From this office he rose to the Governorship in 1914, and since 1919 he has been United States Senator from Massachusetts, having been re-elected in the fall...
When he said: "I wish that there was a Magruder in every Department of the Government" (TIME, Oct. 3), Senator William Edgar Borah may have had Aladdin's lamp in his ample lap. A moon had not passed when, last week at San Diego, Calif., there rose up another "Magruder," this time in the Department...
Then Judge Carpenter rose from his seat. He pointed at the U.S. flag over his courtroom door and sternly said to Mme. Schwimmer...
...York Times: "Composed of the same eminently saleable materials that have made Abie's Irish Rose, mammy songs, Mary Pickford and the comic strips such inexhaustible institutions of our national life." Romancing 'Round. "Fun in the Navy" might be an appropriate subtitle for this selection. It is set on the Brooklyn water front; and a young woman is enamored of one of the sailors. She has a former lover and an irascible father of impeccable lineage. These splatter the stage with farce and melodrama to a happy, if firmly foregone, conclusion. Helen McKellar, called to the part...
...clapped him on the back, hundreds of people shouted at him from all directions, automobile sirens shrieked in his ears. Mayor J. S. Smith congratulated him. Then for dinner, he was rushed to a banquet given in honor of the two flyers. Called upon for a speech, Mr. Schlee rose, said: "There seems to be a general misconception . . ." and collapsed. Friends attributed the breakdown to nervous strain. Said full-page newspaper advertisements:-"Detroit is proud of the Pride of Detroit and its Intrepid Pilots-Ed Schlee and Billy Brock...