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...Debate on the Lend-Lease Bill, H.R. 1776, opened on a plane so high that many Senators felt a little difficulty in breathing. Crowded galleries, hoping for an old-fashioned quick-&-dirty scrap, with plenty of rabbit punches and hitting in the clinches, were disappointed. The Senate wrapped the toga of dignity and dullness about its collective paunch, and gamely strove for classic words...
...face . . . has a compressed appearance, as though someone had squeezed his head in a vise. His suits are custom-made but uninteresting, and always seem a little too tight for him. . . . He is a hard man to imagine in a toga . . . whose indifference to money is such that he can remember offhand how much he was making at any given day in his life, even for singing in choirs...
...elme, invocati, sub toga quaque cor sine mendacio et sine coronary thrombosis pulsare scimus. O, moraturi (ex inquistionibus) vos salutamus. Vos intrepidos de metu libri careuleri vereti sumus. Pro vobis solis fores gloriae et W P A apertae sunt. Yalens, officiumque bursaris vobis de causa elata sunt."--Yale News Editorial...
...inner office he was alone, save for the familiar things around him: the tidy desk; his old couch, black beneath a knitted blue shawl, two white pillows and an Army blanket (which he sometimes wore like a toga on cold afternoons in the park) ; on the wall, a framed copy of Stanzas on Freedom by James Russell Lowell; on the mantel, two ancient lamps and a cane, carved of wood from Borah Peak in Idaho. The secretaries in the outer office heard his full, fluid voice; the Senator was reading, aloud and twice over, some document which he wanted...
...Kentucky, the very man who opposed him in the bitterest of all 1938 primary fights, the fight which aroused national demand for a ban on politics in the WPA, thus resulted in the Hatch Act. Till next August's primary, Kentucky's Happy Man may wear the toga, if not the dignity, of a U. S. Senator...