Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Particularly pleased were the pages to be reassured of the friendly feeling of sharp-calling Senators. On the floor, pages are summoned from their perches on the rostrum steps by various forms of hand noises. Senator Simmons of North Carolina has distracted more than one speaking Senator by a resounding clap of his hands over his head. His colleague Senator Overman summons aid as if he were applauding at a play. Senator Norris' finger-snap is more of a gesture than a sound. Senator Borah rarely uses a page. As a Senator from Kansas, Vice President Curtis himself perfected...
...still his home town in a very real sense. He was born there the day the late great Theodore Roosevelt was having his 16th birthday party, Oct. 27, 1874. Everyone there still calls him "Owen." He has kept Van Hornesville growing up with him, not by taking it in hand the way Henry Ford or a Rockefeller might do, but by getting his neighbors to join him in improvements. He has not expanded his home farm to gobble up the town, but stopped at 700 acres. When the little red schoolhouse was rebuilt along Colonial lines as suggested...
...Guardsmen's Story: The speedboat was a known narcotic and liquor runner; stop signals and warning shots were unheeded; the craft was fired on as it fled guiltily away; not until half an hour later was it found, docked, the dying Downey in the cockpit waving his hand feebly. Although the guardsmen found neither drugs nor liquid aboard, they emphasized the fact that Downey was out on bail, charged with smuggling...