Word: unisonal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dare do that. Some of this will be done by a Senator whom I love for his intestinal fortitude perhaps more than any Senator other than Carter Glass. . . . It will be an attempt to put in the act about three lines forbidding action by any industry in unison and in effect substituting the Federal Trade Commission...
...monetary system should carry encouragement to conservatives, and yet that is the probable effect." Even the Republican Philadelphia Inquirer opined: "The President is for sound money. There is not a crumb of confidence ... for inflationists of the printing press type." But throughout the land many voices chimed in unison with Virginia's Senator Carter Glass, who remarked: "Humanitarians can find some excuse for a man who steals when he has to, but what excuse is there for stealing when there is no need for it." Delaware's Senator Daniel O. Hastings merely snapped: "Robbery...
...refulgent on the Imperial Maternity Pavilion, freshly built in the Fountain Garden of Tokyo's moat-encircled Chiyoda Palace. Minute by minute they approached-the Sun Goddess and the Imperial Child-in what to Japanese courtiers standing motionless in full regalia with faces reverently blank seemed a divine unison. In an adjoining room of the Pavilion stoically waited His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito with the traditional weapons. Always before he had had to give the newborn a dagger, the birthright of every Japanese girl to protect her purity. Four daggers had he thus given to four daughters. This...
...going to vote "Ja." To set all Germany an example of speed, General Goring startlingly dispensed with even the Nazi anthem, the "Horst Wessel Song" (see col. 1). In crisp, commanding sentences, shouted in parade ground tones, Speaker Goring "requested" the Deputies to leap to their feet in unison when they wished to signify approval. Popping up and down like a roomful of marionets, the Reichstag transacted all business of the week in seven and a half minutes flat, re-elected Speaker Goring, elected three Vice Presidents, empowered Speaker Goring to appoint all committees and adjourned sine die, subject...
...Roman Catholic church in Queens Village, N. Y. one night last week twinkled 1,000 wax tapers, clutched by 500 devout Catholic husbands, 500 devout Catholic wives. In solemn unison 1,000 lips moved over the words...