Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once on the Atlantic) of standing on the beach and seeing that certain big black fin cut the water out where, but a few minutes before, I myself had been swimming, I'd like very much to know the preferred procedure when the third-time-that-charms comes along. I have heard all about how you subdue such tough customers as lions, alligators, rattlesnakes and such-you pull their jaws apart till they snap, or holding them by the tail, you crack them like a whip and their head flies off. But what to do when suddenly confronted...
Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Illinois' dudish oldster, who plays along closely with the New Deal, harried angry Senator Robinson by asking for an explanation '"why the amendment is necessary at all . . . if it is already in the power of the President to use his discretion as to the amount of local contributions required." Losing his temper, Joe Robinson turned on him and bellowed: "I can give the Senator from Illinois the explanation, but-Great God!-I respectfully decline to give him understanding." The final scene of the debate was almost tearful. Alben Barkley cried: "I never expected...
...nurse who had taken care of Red when he was hurt once. In Chicago, he always looked her up. Cally taught Slim to dance. Talking to Red was no use, but Cally tried to get Slim to quit line work. Slim turned down Cally's plea. He strung along with...
...until about six years later, after they had moved to Lincoln, that Father & Son Coryell began to dress like twins. Somewhat tentative at first, this custom speedily became systematic with the Coryells. When one buys a suit the other goes along and gets an identical one. Neither ever buys a necktie, a shirt or a pair of socks without taking a duplicate home. The Coryell taste runs to costumes of some audacity and each ensemble is numbered to save time in the morning. Whichever Coryell wakes up first telephones the other and says, "I'm wearing the 23 suit...
Then the writers trooped to the closed meetings of their respective crafts. What I happened in these would have been incredible anywhere else. Along with the discussion of scholarly and original papers like that of Professor Newton Arvin of Smith College on Roots of American Literature, there were bewilderingly hair-splitting literary squabbles that ranged from attacks on Gone With The Wind to attacks on Stalin and the French Popular Front. Now and then there were Dostoevskian interludes when embittered poets or philosophers interrupted the proceedings with autobiographical statements or expositions of their personal credos. Since in any group...