Word: rubicund
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change, to what Clerk of the House William Tyler Page was reading from the rostrum in his clear rapid voice, which usually rings out over the Representatives' heads as though it (or they) had nothing to do with the case The Clerk was reading a letter from jovial rubicund Speaker Nicholas Longworth, who was prolonging his vacation (in Cincinnati). The letter designated Mr. Longworth's substitute, the Speaker Pro Tem. When Clerk Page stopped reading, up came the Representatives' hands to clap as loudly as they could for a slim, smiling little lady in neat black...
...harass a Cabinet officer by nipping and snapping at his ankles is the legislative pastime of not a few Senators and Congressmen. Such a nipper-snapper is Tennessee's rubicund Senator McKellar who, at the Senate's brief special session last month, raised the question of Andrew William Mellon's eligibility to serve President Hoover as Secretary of the Treasury. Always antagonistic to Secretary Mellon, Senator McKellar, by resolution, asked...
...entered the War as Chief of the British Admiralty, switched to Secretary of War and later Air, emerged from the conflict as Colonial Secretary, became Chancellor of the Exchequer and four years ago put the depreciated pound sterling back on gold. Last week a hearty cheer greeted the versatile, rubicund, dynamic Chancellor as he bustled into the house at 3:18, just three minutes after Edward of Wales had taken, his favorite gallery seat above the clock. Breathlessly the whole empire waited. No advance copies of the speech had been given out. What was up Wins ton's sleeve...
...which the Senate thought, on the eve of the Chapman deal's consummation, that" it smelled, was not only a matter of money. Rubicund Senator McKellar of Tennessee complained loudly that a onetime Shipping Board official, Joseph Edward Sheedy, was in shameful cahoots with Mr. Chapman. Cried Senator Mc-Kellar...
Lusitania Armed. Britain's present Chancellor of the Exchequer, rubicund and Right Honorable Winston ("Winnie") Churchill, is quoted as stating over his signature...