Word: unlit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office at No. 50 Broadway last week Louis Levy sat biting off bits of an unlit cigar, tossing them on the floor. Not until after the entry of the formal order would the disbarment be complete, would still be subject to possible stays. Disbarment from practice in this Federal Court would not prevent Louis Levy from continuing the practice of law in State courts. But almost automatically a record of the proceedings and Judge Knox's opinion would go to the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. If disbarred by the Appellate Division the name of Louis...
...their small rounded shoulders weighed a solemn responsibility, as the House strategists of a bill that would take the U. S. around an unlit, unmarked curve in the historic road of its foreign policy...
...this they had the aid of the Senate's No. 1 Realist, Vice President John Nance Garner. At about ball-game time each day the Senate sits he bowlegs his way through tall swing-doors to survey the chamber scene-fresh unlit cigar in hand, little Neon-blue eyes flickering, his back-hair ruffled from his after-lunch nap. Reality always enters a room with John Garner, and last week his impatience with empty gabble, his dislike of oratorical set-pieces, brought the high-flown debate down to earth...
Tasteless and odorless carbon monoxide crumples the coal miner, turns his body cherry red. From the exhaust pipe of his automobile comes the same deadly gas to fell the careless motorist who lets his engine run in a tight-shut garage. Housewives leave unlit gas stoves turned on and whole families perish. Unskilled operators give surgical patients too much anesthesia. Faulty furnaces kill college boys in their beds. Newborn babies breathe once or twice, then breathe no more. . . . In these ways and in many another Death by Asphyxia comes some 50,000 times a year...
...lives with his wife at Lyonhurst, succeeds Mr. Albright. The Mather tradition goes on. Director Cammerer, tall, browned, 49 and a good mixer, has not seen his new domain in years. While supervising east ern parks, he has puttered expertly in his two-acre Lyonhurst garden, chewing an unlit cigar. In the Eastern service he has already erected a monument to himself. It was he who handled the acquisition - through State help, private grants, $5,000,000 from the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Foundation - of the lands for Great Smoky Mountains Park, in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. The park...