Word: skylights
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...President moved slowly into the House of Representatives. In the packed, still chamber stood the men & women of the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the Cabinet, all of the U.S. Government under one skylight roof. Below the great flat-hung Stars & Stripes stood Vice President Henry Agard Wallace, Speaker Sam Rayburn. The heavy applause lingered, gradually began to break into cheers and rebel yells. Speaker Rayburn gave one smash of his heavy gavel, introduced the President in one sentence...
...clear sounds: We squeeze through the skylight and drop onto the floor. A cup of that most pernicious of all drinks... Tea ... which, according to Italian newspapers will be the downfall of the British yet.... And so to bed. Yours truly, E.V. French, Graduate School of Design...
...paunchy little man stood quietly behind the marble rostrum, uneasy in his unaccustomed formal clothes, his shrewd, warm eyes downcast, his bald head shining dully in the soft glow from the vast skylight. Inches from his right hand was the gavel, the symbol of the authority he would now wield as Speaker of the House, until death or defeat of the Democrats. Sam Rayburn, 58, of Bonham, Tex., bachelor, shorthorn breeder, and for seven years a moderator of the New Deal, was waiting to speak his piece...
...often listened to Joe and that he enjoyed him very much. I am sorry to say that I didn't like the way the Strad boys played the Haydn. They rushed it like Toscanini playing the blues and I expected. Uncle Joe Haydn to pop through the skylight...
...Pittsburgh audiences to their feet, yelling & stamping. At the season's close, Klemperer was offered the job but decided to stay in Los Angeles. Second choice fell to 49-year-old Budapest-born Reiner, whose second wife, former Actress Carlotta Irwin, is the daughter of the late Pittsburgh Skylight Manufacturer Thomas W. Irwin. Conductor Reiner, long known among orchestra musicians as one of the most crotchety and technically efficient conductors in the U. S., conducts without score, loves spaghetti...