Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year we mutually decided we should dissolve. It just did not work as we had hoped." On the South portico of the White House the President's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, surprised her son by presenting him with a portrait of herself wearing a black gown and a stole of sables. Present at the ceremony were only members of the household and the artist, Pole Tade Styka...
Postmaster General Farley has been criticized up and down the land for: i) stuffing Government offices with too many deserving but incompetent Democrats; 2) exhibiting bad political strategy in his home State of New York; 3) canceling airmail contracts. But last week Postmaster Farley stole a march on the other members of the Cabinet with a shrewd stroke of business for the Government. With the appearance of a Mother's Da.y stamp bearing a copy of Whistlers Mother (with flowers in one corner), "General" Farley declared with a sure insight into the human heart...
...humiliated, he first settled down in Paris on an $18,000-per-year pension granted him by his old companies. But humiliation followed. In Chicago a grand jury indicted him for embezzlement. Newshawks began to hound him in the streets. Finally, just before his arrest could be requested, he stole away in the night. His son Samuel Jr. went with him as far as Milan whence the old man fled alone to Athens. Instead of bravely facing the music, he had elected to become a hounded man, to ask hospitality of aliens, to finagle with outlandish courts and people...
...song: "Row, Row, Row with Roosevelt." He campaigned through the Midwest and was a spellbinder on the stump, a master of all the Irish arts of bringing tears to the eyes of his hearers when he told of Franklin D. Roosevelt's great heart. Last year he quietly stole a march on the professional politicians, got his brother, William Goucher, appointed U. S. Marshal for Rhode Island. Boss Farley was reported to have said that Democrat Dowling could have whatever he wanted. Month ago a dinner was given for him in Philadelphia, at which such speakers as Henry Morgenthau...
Came the Day. They stole up behind the Hon. John F. Curry, seized him by the hands and feet, and swung him into the sacrificial fire, with tears of repentance flowing freely...