Word: proceedings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liner St. Louis left Hamburg one Sunday last month. Out into the grey waste of the Atlantic it carried its dismal cargo: 937 German-Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. The ten-year-old, oil-burning, 16,732-ton ship was scheduled to discharge its miserable company at Havana, proceed to New York to pick up passengers for a gay June cruise to the West Indies. The refugees were to remain in Cuba until they could enter the U. S. They were a typical group of the world's newest homeless wanderers: men in sports clothes who had paid...
Speaking of gate crashing, Pegler told how his father once got into a meeting where examiners were going over the papers of an absconding bank president in Chicago. "He just walked in, laid his stick and gloves on the board table and said, 'Well, let us proceed to business, gentlemen,' and somehow the examiners thought he was the banker's lawyer and the lawyers thought he was an examiner until he got up to catch an edition. Someone then asked him, 'And whom do you represent?' 'Hearst's Chicago American...
...been a girl's finishing school; on the night of Nov. 6, 1917, a few hours before it was to be called to order, a short, baldheaded, tireless revolutionary named Lenin stepped out of hiding before the delegates, stilled their applause, said laconically, "Comrades, we shall now proceed to construct the Socialist order...
Paraphrased Hendrik Willem Van Loon: ". . . Our left flank has been annihilated, our right flank has surrendered, and our centre is beginning to give way; we shall therefore proceed to the attack...
...moments of gloom and happiness of any group of people proceed from the same fundamental roots as the joys and sorrows of man as a universal form. Coffin's idea is that the distinctive characteristics of a single human being, such as a Maine fisherman, are the qualities which lend a positive tone to poetic translations of human nature. One cannot write convincingly of a universal type of human being, for even if it existed, it would lack the compelling reality which inspires poetry. The force and enthusiasm behind a poem is one factor which determines its ability to convey...