Word: borrowable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking for the Tories, Winston Churchill last week brought in a partisan but elo quent indictment: "We now approach the crisis to which every spendthrift comes when he has used up everything he can lay his hands on, and everything he can beg or borrow, and must face the hard reckoning of facts . . . With the immense aid given us by the U.S. and our dominions from overseas, there was no reason why [Britain] should not have got back by now to solvency, security and independence...
...biography that shuttles from sister to sister and becomes in the end a kind of trellis for most of the blooms of the Yankee flowering. Emerson, Alcott, Channing, Margaret Fuller, Thoreau and most of the others pop up in this book with the naturalness of neighbors dropping in to borrow a copy of the Boston Transcript. Mrs. Tharp's greatest charm is "that she loves and respects her gallery of famous individualists but is never awed by them. What she has to say about them is closer to kitchen common sense than to scholarly penetration; in this portrait they...
Early arithmetic lessons from a governess came hard: "The figures were tied into all sorts of tangles and did things to one another which it was extremely difficult to forecast . . . You had to borrow one or carry one, and afterwards you had to pay back the one you had borrowed. These complications cast a steadily gathering shadow over my daily life...