Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these 50 years the greatest literature that the U. S. can claim was produced. The purpose of Critic Brooks's history is not only to re-examine the productions themselves, but to visualize the social conditions that nourished them, to study the men who created them, to summon up what was good in that society for its measure of guidance for the present. Van Wyck Brooks sees art as a normal function of men and communities. If men of genius are frustrated in their struggles to release their creative faculties, their tragedies are reproduced in the lives of anonymous...
Sandwiched in between social functions, given mostly by Congressmen angling for the U. S. Country Women's votes, were scores of addresses at Constitution Hall. An Australian delegate told how farm women there had installed a wireless set in every outlying homestead so that expectant mothers could summon medical aid. A British delegate made an impassioned plea for the destruction of stone walls and high hedges so that driving townspeople could enjoy country yards and gardens. A resolution favoring more emphasis on international news in rural newspapers passed unanimously. An lowan chorus chanted folk songs. An Amerindian woman presented...
...clerk began calling, bells rang in the corridors to summon vagrant Senators. "Guilty," said Senator Adams. "Guilty," said Senator Ashurst. "Not guilty," said Senator Austin...
...lunged for the boxes of proxies, the rest closed in. From the yelling confusion of heads, chairs, fists, feet and brief cases, three figures finally emerged: Mr. Bennett safely through the door with his proxies ; Lawyer Powers slammed against a wall; Lawyer Carney dashing for a telephone to summon the police, crying: "That man [Powers] committed assault & battery upon me. I'll have him arrested." Lawyer Powers, regaining his composure, gruffed: "Ridiculous...
...discussion will undoubtedly arise over Sections 4 and 5 of Article IV, "Powers," dealing with student discipline. Section 4 as proposed now reads, "The Council shall have the power to investigate any infringement of the College rules, for the purpose of recommendation to the College officials," Section 5 "to summon before it individual students for questioning...