Word: omnibus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Faced with its impressive omnibus, a joint Congressional committee last year soon fell to squabbling, finally split apart to work on it separately. The House Committee divided the bill into four sections, passed two last August. The Senate bill, introduced by Joe Robinson last June, was rewritten by South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes and reintroduced in January, finally emerged from committee last month. Last week, the Senate settled down to work on it with a will...
...procedure. First step in the making of any Disney picture is the story conference, at which the Disney story staff gathers to sort out ideas that may have grown out of their half-dozen minds, or may have been plucked out of the studio gag library, a sort of omnibus of humor and situations from Aesop to Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Before any script is written, it is discussed and pantomimed by the eager gagsters, who solemnly simulate Donald Duck squawking his rage when trapped under a theatre curtain, or frozen Pluto, slinking down an Alpine slope like...
...instructor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. With the help of King's friends, he traced the history of the vitamin in scientific journals. Dr. King's work, well-known and highly regarded among biochemists, was described two years ago in Outposts of Science, an omnibus of science for laymen by Bernard Jaffe (a chemist himself). Jaffe unequivocally credited King and his coworker, William A. Waugh, with first obtaining the pure vitamin: "On April 4, 1932, after seven years of continuous work, King finally isolated fifty milligrams from one litre of lemon juice, and identified the pure...
...among the paintings are six watercolors whose discovery was announced a few weeks ago in Baltimore by researchers who are still engaged in sorting out the vast collection left by Henry Walters, "the South's richest man" (railroads), who died in 1931. Three of these, Interior of an Omnibus, First-Class Carriage, and Lawyer exist in no other version and had not been seen for 40 years...
...Ehrman (The Powerful Katrinka), pushed a battered auto off the tracks with one hand; Tree-climber William Scharr (Mickey McGuire) set off firecrackers. That evening at the Pelham Country Club, Cartoonist Fox was guest of honor at a dinner. Next day his trolley was replaced by a shiny new omnibus...