Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power of the President to use his discretion as to the amount of local contributions required." Losing his temper, Joe Robinson turned on him and bellowed: "I can give the Senator from Illinois the explanation, but-Great God!-I respectfully decline to give him understanding." The final scene of the debate was almost tearful. Alben Barkley cried: "I never expected to see the floor of the U. S. Senate turned into a theatre where a scene from the Merchant of Venice would be re-enacted with Uncle Sam playing the role of Shylock." Carter Glass stamped onto the floor...
Reported Dr. Stokley by wireless: "The whole scene had a peculiar hue as if illuminated by an arc light. . . . The camera was grinding and the ocean was getting darker, but I could not notice any definite shadow on the sea. Then I heard the whistle blown by the ship's carpenter as a sign that totality had begun. Overhead appeared the brilliantly clear, greyish-black disk of the moon and around it the sun's corona. At least seven prominent streamers were apparent, as well as several smaller ones. The longest extended about twice the moon...
...built in 1929 as a copy of the Scottish church where Annie Laurie worshipped. Ginger Rogers married Lew Ayres in the Little Church of the Flowers but there have been no cinemarriages at the Wee Kirk. The latter, however, has an impressive record of interment ceremonies. It was the scene of services for Will Rogers and Marie Dressier. Prior to last week, last big film funeral at Forest Lawn was that of Irving Thalberg, whose remains were taken from B'nai B'rith Synagog for interment in a $25,000 room in the Mausoleum. Jack and Lottie Pickford...
...Hostess Gladys Witt, whose marital indecisions had been making headlines. When the plane never arrived, WAE launched a search which continued spasmodically until last week with the lure of a $1,000 reward. Fortnight ago a searcher on Lone Peak found some letters. Last week four men reached the scene of the crash almost simultaneously, agreed to share...
...immediately after the war have the citizens of this country been subjected to such powerful forces. In fact there are many analogies between the emotional atmosphere of today and that which existed during the first years of the European struggle. I cannot help drawing a parallel between the American scene into which you graduate and that into which I was graduated in 1914. One difference there is, and that a major one. You are already aware of the stresses and strains present in Europe and those which have been set up by induction in the United States. To the members...