Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decades, the floor leader, the Speaker or anyone else must nearly always go through the Rules Committee to get legislation to the floor. The Rules Committee serves as an absolutely necessary check on the flood of bills introduced each session by the members of the House (by last weekend they had introduced 3,443 so far this session). But beyond that, notions differ. "Some think we are just a traffic cop," says Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith. "Others feel that we have to be selective and exercise our own judgment on what should go to the floor. I subscribe...
Even as most undergraduates are reaching the climax of their annual post-exam binges, 12 Harvard athletic squads will swing back into action during the coming weekend. For those who are sober enough to care, two or three varsity contests should prove of more than passing interest...
Mike Hollern and Rod Anderson are major scoring threats for the Green, and Dirk Frankenberg is a more than competent goalie. Frankenberg's biggest trouble is usually his own temper; but unfortunately there will not be enough Crimson fans at Hanover this weekend to get it stirred...
These boudoir details appeared last week in London's lip-smacking Sunday Pictorial under the byline of William Charles Ellis, 51, boss of a pub in Hertfordshire called the Plough and Dial but, until last November superintendent of the Queen's weekend home, Windsor Castle. His chatter was the latest in a series of tattle tales about royal family life to appear in London's popular press, ranging from the governess' gabble of the 1950 The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford, to the more recent manly sacrifices of Peter Townsend, Princess Margaret's boy friend...
Other businessmen talked of renting a boat for a weekend "fishing trip with the boys," stocking the boat with girls as well as fishbait. By Monday morning, said one fishing host of his client, "you know he'll do anything to help...