Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A "homey" man in Washington, he lives with his family in a rented furnished house in a quiet section. His young daughters are "in society," which he shuns. He plays no golf, no cards, no craps. He sings "darkey songs" accompanying himself on the piano. In South Carolina he is...
Pending definite news, Senator Edge was internally atwitter over the prospect of being "just across the Channel, Charlie." A somewhat rotund, full-blooded gentleman of 54, with a history-printer's devil to millionaire-statesman-vaguely reminiscent of the first of U. S. ministers to France (Benjamin Franklin), he...
And then that extraordinarily clever little people the Japanese who invented the lantern that bears their name, how well they epitomized the fragility of human happiness. Be careful to get the pretty paper things inside before it rains for their colored loveliness cannot stand the rigors of our sharp New...
Now I saw this particular game and I remember distinctly that McGinnity struggled with John Evers, not with Joe Tinker. Hugh Fullerton, the celebrated baseball expert, bears me out in his article "The Game that Stirred the Nation," in Liberty, July 14, 1928. He writes: "Joe Mc-Ginnity, the '...
"We have this on the basis of direct advices from Professor Einstein himself. His correspondence bears the tone of scholarly dignity and magnanimity. . . ."