Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dickens began to write sketches of London life, signed them with the pen-name 'Boz." The sketches were so popular that the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle regarded him with an increasingly kindly eye. One of them, who had three daughters, was glad to bestow his eldest, Catherine, on rising young Journalist Dickens. Publishers Chapman & Hall suggested Dickens write a series of humorous pieces about a club of Cockney sportsmen, to be illustrated by Artist Robert Seymour. After drawing seven pictures Seymour shot himself; Dickens got another'artist (Hablot K. Browne). With the publication of The Posthumous Papers...
...pension muck is the actually disabled veteran who is often too self-respecting to join the scramble for aid. Pointing indignantly to European pension systems, Authoress Mayo asks: "Did they, too, profane the name of their War-disabled, using it as a mask for racketeers? Did they, too, bestow the title of 'veteran' on men who saw no service beyond a training camp or a draft board office? Did they class with battle casualties persons kicked by a mule or frightened by a tree-toad ten years after the War was over...
...judge from Fascist editorials, Cook Mussolini favors: 1) explicit divorcement of the League Covenant from the Treaty of Versailles (which Il Duce has long held should be revised to appease Germany and bestow on Italy certain territories which she was promised before she entered the War but failed to get at the Peace Conference); 2) expulsion of common nations from the League Council which would become a permanent committee of Great Powers, nebulously "responsible" to the Democratic League Assembly of all states; 3) drastic reduction in League expenditures and personnel on the theory that Geneva has become a hive...
This week, in public, the Pope would bestow upon the new cardinals their big, cartwheel-shaped red beaver hats, with 15 tassels, which each would hang in the sanctuary of his cathedral. They would kiss the papal slippers, hand and cheek, would be embraced in turn by their fellow Princes of the Church. Then, once more in secret, the Pope would present rings, perform the ceremony of "opening" and "closing" the cardinals' mouths, symbolizing the weighty matters which they were to hear and keep secret...
That Congress should be reluctant to bestow added powers upon the executive seems an odd stemming of the tide of political theory and practice. Even the English Parliament has accepted its proper fate in an economic and social emergency whose trends are too rapid for mass regulation. Centralization of authority in the hands of a Prime Minister with a clear majority in the Commons has caused no dictator baiting. But our representatives have a stubborn reluctance to admit that their own leadership in the crisis has vacillated long enough, and cling pitiably to the purse strings which have of late...