Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, Democrats gave President Roosevelt a majority of 1,100,000, Governor Herbert Lehman a majority of 500,000, failed to cut down the Republican majority in the State Senate by even one seat, succeeded in the State Assembly in winning only 74 out of 150 seats...
...fantastic international money which he calls the Europa Franc and which he manages to spend in the shops of his native district of Haute Loire which sent him in 1932 to the Chamber of Deputies. It was not his constituents but the Chamber which deprived Philibert of his seat last March, after he had infringed French law in various eccentric ways, always escaping from the police to Belgium in a bright blue straw hat. Last week Incredible Philibert, the Zioncheck of France, was arrested after another fantastic chase and this time the vexed French gendarmes succeeded in having him placed...
...under his personal supervision. Before very long Shylock, bursting in upon Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is required to account for his presence in "Hamlet". Later there is depicted a feud in the best Montague-Capulet fashion, between John Gielgud and Leslie Howard, each of whom gives Beatrile Lillie a front seat ticket for the other's performance, each knowing that the performance will prove only a minor side-show to that amiable woman's extraordinary volubility. But Mr. Shakespeare is soon retired to an honorary presidency, and the dazzling variety of talent united in this single production is given free...
When he died in 1795, James Boswell left a reference in his will to his private papers stored in an ebony chest at the family seat of Auchinleck Castle, Scotland. For generations his descendants rebuffed enquiring scholars and collectors, claimed that the ebony chest had been destroyed. In 1927 Boswell's great-great-grandson, Lord Talbot de Malahide, permitted Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, famed collector of items on Samuel Johnson, to examine the material, eventually sold it to him. An edition of Boswell's private papers, called the greatest literary discovery of a century, limited to 570 subscribers...
Politics again, George H. Tinkham, the Republican Congressman from the local Democratic district went back into office by carrying his district with 13,000 votes more than President Roosevelt got. Mr. Tinkham has whiskers, has held his seat since 1915, and has never yet made a campaign. This year he got back from Europe the day before the election. Probably he didn't bother to vote for himself. Of course he is a Harvard...