Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt, whose failings do not include lack of aptitude for satire, found all this strikingly inept, he did not say so. Instead, with a superb show of good manners, he thanked his hosts and went home. After the National Press Club's dinner last November, Franklin Roosevelt retired to bed with acute indigestion. Last week's frivolities left his health unimpaired...
...Democratic majority in the House would, especially in an election year, prove so much more responsive to the wishes of business than to the wishes of the Administration as to kill the third basket entirely. This last week was precisely what occurred. So eager was Congress to show that it is still a representative body that it was willing to risk its dignity by attacking a ghost...
Senator Bridges (in an effort to show that TVA had wasted public funds): There is the story about a jackass down in the Tennessee Valley...
...Freshman class will parade its talent in an another "amateur" show tomorrow night unlike the one given last fall, prizes will be given from the remaining profit of the first Yardling dance. The performance is to be given in the Lower Common Room of the Union at 7:15 o'clock Sunday and will be judged by three officers of the University, among them Colonel Apted...
There was such an enthusiastic response to the competition for the three prizes of $7.50, $5, and $3, that the Union Committee, which is sponsoring the show, will have to eliminate the contestants...