Word: temperedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prior to the formation of the new Cabinet, the Chamber and Senate elected their own officers last week. Since the Senators had lost their Speaker, because of his being chosen President of France, they had to cast about for someone new. chose pompous, scholarly 68-year-old Senator Jules Jeanneney...
On Memorial Day an ill-tempered Senate celebrated by lashing the Sales Tax movement to its knees. Senator Harrison paraded on the floor the list of 55 Senators vowing to vote Nay. Desperately supporters of the tax bill lay about them right & left, seizing upon various excises to help push...
Over the entry of Kirkland House is the coat-of-arms of the Kirkland family. The conspicuous feature of it are the three large stars, which remind the beholder of the more plebian but more renowned ensignia of another illustrious family. Some irreverend spirits have even gone so far as...
In the Luxembourg Gardens, close by the alley where bad-tempered old gentlemen play frenzied croquet every Sunday, a new Punch & Judy show was operating last week with the consent and approval of the Senate of the French Republic. For years the root-te-tooting of the Luxembourg's...
Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and his sedate band lavished almost too much care on the hard, staccato beginnings of the rhapsody, the smart, shifting jazz rhythms which followed. People were enthusiastic about the smooth, melodic middle theme which the Koussevitzky strings played superbly but Bostonians never really accept any new music...