Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaker Garner, aged 62, has found presiding over the House more strenuous and tiring than he had expected. According to his friends, he took the Vice-Presidential nomination in the hope of shifting to the comparatively easy job of ruling the unruly Senate. If elected, he will be the second man (first: Schuyler Colfax) in U. S. history who has presided over both the branches of Congress...
...cross. It was his wish to fight out the 1932 campaign on economic issues. He liked the slogan "Bread, not Beer." He feared that any notice he or his party might take of Prohibition would tend to magnify "beer" over "bread" and thus divert public attention from his long strenuous efforts to pull the country out of Depression. But "General"' Brown was persistent. He lined up most of the Cabinet for a Prohibition change. He hammered home to the President the necessity of the Wet vote if the G. O. P. hoped to carry the North and East. Wearing...
...Legislative Committee investigating New York City scandals abruptly ceased investigating last week. The inquisitorial phase of his duties over after 14 strenuous months, Counsel Samuel Seabury & wife set off by motor for Washington, Pa. where he delivered a Commencement address and received a law doctorate at Washington & Jefferson College. Behind him he left the case against Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, with a broad hint that it was now up to Governor Roosevelt...
Niggardly was the promotion bestowed by George V last week on Australia's Sir Isaac Isaacs "first native-born Governor General of a Dominion." Only the most strenuous Australian insistence moved His Majesty in the first place to appoint as representative of the Crown in Australia "a man whom the King has never seen" (TIME. Dec. 15, 1930). Last week Sir Isaac Isaacs, Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael & St. George, was promoted not into the peerage but merely to Knight Grand Cross in the order of which he was already a Knight Commander...
...life story or of superficial traits were disappointed. It was abstract, idealistic music, touched only here & there with humor sounded by piccolos and the xylophone. Large, amiable Mrs. Stock once gave a homely word-portrait of the Stock who likes to build furniture, tinker with electricity. After a particularly strenuous piece of conducting, when he was effusively mopping his brow, she leaned over to the next box, said: "Oh, my poor Frederick, he sweats...