Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Save for the President's pew and the diplomatic section, the Senate galleries were crowded long before 11 a. m. People sat on the floor in the aisles, breaking the rules. Word went about that Senator-designate and Senator-elect Frank L. Smith of Illinois was in the Republican cloakroom. Curious first row gallery-sitters craned their necks over the railing, hoping to see something, breaking another Senate rule. The hour of 11 approached. Senators sauntered to their desks, rustled papers. A gratuitous informer in the gallery pointed, whispered: "See that handsome man with the white hair; that...
...work of philanthropy a step farther. In addition to arranging lectures and meeting for men interested in missionary work and maintaining contact with Harvard men engaged in such work, it conducts a Daily Vacation Bible School during the summer for some fifty Cambridge children. This school is as a rule under the leadership of a Harvard man. It gives the children two hours a day of handwork, singing, Bible study, and exercise...
...English game differs from its American counterpart chiefly in the matter of scoring. A point is tallied only when the server wins the rally in England. Another minor difference lies in the English rule that being struck by the ball at any time constitutes loss of the point...
...attended the University of Illinois, has returned to the Philippines and is now by the side of her husband in the up rising of which he is the head. He is Datu Tahil, a high dignitary of the Moros, a people who have always been rebellious against the American rule; and her presence in the zone of fighting is said to be a serious problem to the Government troops who realize that if they should happen to injure the Princess there would be a general revolution among her people...
Wives of lawyers and mothers of three daughters do not, as a rule, write novels, so Mrs. Colby proceeded to tell a bit about herself and her work: "This is my first novel. . . . How did I come to write it? Oh, I don't think I can tell you that. You see, I believe these things just come out of the subconscious mind. ... I write in longhand and I am so messy about it that each chapter has to be re-written a dozen times. I don't think I could use a typewriter- the hammering would distract...