Word: halled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watch the proceedings, 10,000 shouting citizens tried to cram themselves into the large oak-paneled council room in Cleveland's City Hall. Those who could get in heard the clerk droning a resolution praising the Hopkins administration, asking its continuance. They saw round-faced Mr. Hopkins sitting back in his chair, eyeing with a great show of indifference the 61 amber bulbs in the Moorish chandelier. They saw 25 councilmen, impatient at the droning, presided over by Mayor John D. Marshall, fingering his gavel, munching peanuts...
...Hopkins into office, only to become displeased with him, plot his removal. It was not until just before last week's meeting that he was able, after three unsuccessful party caucuses, to assemble another in Room 1050 at the Hollenden Hotel, three blocks from City Hall, to line up the 13 council votes necessary for City Manager Hopkins' removal. To succeed Mr. Hopkins, the Maschke councilmen chose State Senator Daniel E. Morgan...
...penitentiary. Furthermore, he was dictatorial, unharmonious. Where the charges came from, councilmen said they did not know. A messenger had brought them from outside. Alert newsmen noted that the messenger was a Maschke minion, had left the Maschke office with a packet just before his arrival at City Hall...
Great was the suspense in a Manhattan concert hall last week. After each burst of applause an expectant silence fell in the audience. Many thought, particularly after the sweeping finale of the Liszt Preludes, that Conductor Willem Mengelberg would speak. He had been presented with a floral wreath. They knew that it was his last performance of the season with the Philharmonic-Symphony.* Their programs told them so. Many suspected, moreover, that it was his final farewell to the Philharmonic and to Manhattan. The rumor had spread that he had criticized the condition in which Conductor Arturo Toscanini had left...
...midst of a moving discourse by the President of the Megntzu Agricultural Society, bandit-soldiers rushed into the banquet hall. Roughly they herded the befuddled flower of Megntzu together, bundled them off to the railroad station, piled them aboard a train which chuffed off 200 miles inland to the end of the line. Cold sober now, the District Magistrate, the Garrison Commander, the Wireless Director and all their friends were forced to tramp over hard frozen roads to a cave high in the mountains. For their release the wily bandit of Megntzu demanded not one but four camel-loads...