Word: scene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion could do to keep from outright laughter. Senator Jones, according to Congressman Tilson, wore his "best poker face." President Hoover rounded out the ritual by saying: "I thank you. I have no further communication to make to the Congress at this time." The comedy of the White House scene was furnished by the fact that the Senate defaulted on the tariff bill by voting to end the special session with this major legislation still uncompleted. The first session of the 71st Congress which began last April and ended last week cost the country $177,000,000, exclusive of legislators...
...recall sitting quietly a; his desk while steam shovels threatened the Yard with a new War Memorial. And perched on his window seat the Vagabond still looks out over the scene of many a Senior-Freshman picture-disturbance...
...Levant when bartering was done with benefit of clergy so that polite thieving was sanctified. Subsequently they show the Portuguese in India, the Dutch in the Baltic, the English in China, slave traders and clipper ships in the 19th Century U. S.* The last is a generalized scene of modern industry- liners in a harbor, airplanes in the air, tall buildings rearing in the background, a sweating structural steel crew. Each unit is related to the whole by composition and color. There are no pretty girls, no idealization, no gold leaf...
Barber Bratfish did not arrive upon the Chicago scene in time to serve such illustrious undergraduates as Milton Sills and Carl Van Vechten (class of 1903). But among the many now-famed names and faces which Barber Bratfish has known ahead of the world are Homer Guck (1904, now publisher of the Chicago Herald & Examiner), William Patterson MacCracken (1909, until lately Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics), Arthur Burton Rascoe (1911-13) now associate editor of Plain Talk), Lawrence H. Whiting (1913, now president of Indiana Limestone Co.), Charles Glore (1910, now manager of Field, Glore & Co., investments...
...regrettable condition, on the train to Leningrad. Horrified, they immediately get drunk again. Never quite sober, always refusing to face the fact, they wander about Leningrad from hotel to nightclub, from the city to the country, and finally, in despairing, shaky soberness, return to Moscow and jail. A typical scene...