Word: scenes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Such last week was the scene of the convivial dinner tendered to Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, boosted last month into the Senate Leadership at an hour when his Democratic colleagues were divided with the greatest bitterness over the Supreme Court issue. Moreover, the celebration was timed to mark the burial of that very bitterness, the hoped-for hour when with his original handicap removed he could lead a reunited majority through a triumphal finale in a closing Congress...
...legislative blows to the Administration which are always best delivered in the crush that takes place when any Congress closes. Sessions of Congress are political tragedies or comedies not according to their first two acts, but according to what happens in their last act, often in their last scene. The exit is the thing, and Alben Barkley, who has set no records for accomplishment in his first month as Leader, still has success within his grasp if he can wind up Congress and march it off the stage without further damage to the prestige of Party and President...
...side the Spanish frontier was hermetically closed. Rightists explained : this was to prevent details of the advance on Santander leaking out to Leftist agents. Leftists explained: this was to keep news of new anti-Franco insurrections from the world. San Sebastian, theoretically completely calm since September, was reported the scene of one outbreak. Leftists reported that their scouts had heard firing behind the Rightists' lines not in one but several localities. The reason generally given was bickering between the Spanish regulars and their Italian and German allies. Since friction of that kind had been rumored before, the Leftists...
Last week, on the anniversary of the accident, tiny Chatsworth (pop. 1,100) held a memorial service in the Village Park. Seventy-nve-year-old Louis Joseph Haberkorn, one of the first to reach the scene, presided, introduced nine survivors. Service ended with singing of the ballad The Bridge Was Burned at Chatsworth, written shortly after the wreck by one T. P. Westendorf, whose initials are the same as the unlucky railroad's. Excerpt...
...scene in which Jack Benny out-gabs such topflight illustrators as McClelland Barclay, Peter Arno, Arthur William Brown and John LaGatta before getting back as good as he gives from wry Rube Goldberg...