Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over two hours the scoop hunter listened through the door, dejected over the fact that he couldn't print what he heard. One of the things that impressed him was: "The telephone bill along of the Demorcratic Committee in Washington is $50,000 a year...
...flesh-a fee the Italians never saw their way to giving him. On the British program, besides a coterie of other Arabic talent, broadminded Crooner Abdul-Wahab in person cleared his voice, began his popular warbling, sang in Arabic an "ode to Shakespeare." His fee for helping British imperialism along: $625 an appearance...
Olive Branch. All along the route Arabs, Berbers, Negroes from the South Sahara turned out with such enthusiasm to show French allegiance that tears rolled down the Premier's cheeks. At Sousse, with the Foreign Legion, cavalry and rifle regiments lined up in the square, M. Daladier caught the frenzy of the crowd, stepped out of the official procession and went through the square shaking hands with men, patting the heads of children. At Sfax the Caid (Mayor), whose grandfather fought against the invading French 57 years ago, presented M. Daladier with a silver olive branch symbolic of "union...
...family in The Primrose Path is not only screwy but scandalous. Overflowing a ramshackle homestead, the Wallaces, except for one unsociable white sheep who insists on being respectable, are a cheerfully depraved clan. Grandma is a gamy old bawd, who in her day plucked most of the primroses along the path. Her married daughter, Emma, is a talented and popular lady of the evening. Her granddaughter, Eva, too young to do anything worse than swear like a trooper, lines up at the starting post of womanhood ready to outrun the fastest of her family. Less stuffy folk than the Wallaces...
Skipping all such considerations, Senator Burton Wheeler, head of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, last week declared that postalization looked good to him, passed it along...