Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persons in Germany, including foreigners, were ordered by Cabinet decree to obey whatever instructions Reich authorities may issue "for protection against air attack." In practice this means that foreigners must now rush about with Germans, donning gas masks, popping into cellars, and having their homes rummaged by Nazi inspectors whenever Air Minister General Hermann Wilhelm Goring orders one of his realistic mock air raids...
Since Jan. 3 the U. S. Senate has got along with 95 members and West Virginia with only one Senator. Neither Senate nor State seemed to suffer appreciably under this arrangement. Nevertheless when Rush Drew Holt celebrated his 30th birthday last week, the Senate spent two full days arguing over whether he was constitutionally entitled to the Senate seat to which West Virginia elected him last autumn...
...father, his mother, his sister and some 200 neighbors were on hand to watch Rush graduate into the Senate. Bespectacled, wirehaired, snaggletoothed, he eagerly posed in every position cameramen could suggest, beside his birthday cake, pointing to his birthday on the calendar, at the foot of the statue of Kentucky's Henry Clay who became a Senator at 29 because the Senate did not know...
...taking the position I am taking. Every impulse of my carnal nature calls for a vote for him. But every impulse of my intellectual nature demands a vote against his seating." Later Mrs. Holt said she could have "wrung Senator Connally's neck" for talking that way. Rush Holt's white suit got all wrinkled during the first day's orations. When he and his family returned next day, he had on his second best, a brown coat and grey trousers. In that garb he stood by until the Senate finally decided to complete its membership...
...Great Train Robbery (1903), The Birth of a Nation (1914), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), The Jazz Singer (1927), the newsreel of the sinking Vestris (1928) are classics which help explain how & why the cinema became what it now is. Because the profitable demand for them is soon exhausted, most films, classic or otherwise, are retired after about two years, frequently forgotten, sometimes destroyed. To preserve for students and posterity important moving pictures of the past will be the function of the film library which Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this week announced...