Word: bottomly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Erskine Caldwell (God's Little Acre, We Are the Living) talked about the natives in the vicinity of Augusta, Me. where he now lives. Said he: "They don't get married much in Maine. . . . The population is dying out from the top as well as from the bottom. Winter is so terrible up there and their stock has so petered out that the oncoming of fall is called the suicide season. The old people just can't face another winter and so they bump themselves off. . . . Down the road from me a piece lives a family which...
...body. . . . He had his mother's sound sense, her natural goodness towards others, her smile." But he was a great gossip. He set a hot pace for future Princes of Wales by becoming his time's sartorial authority ("his absentmindedness started the fashion of leaving the bottom button of the waistcoat undone; another time it made trousers turn up at the foot") and an almost professional student of insignia and decorations. Tactful, when as King he took the Oath before the House of Lords he so mumbled the passages denouncing the Roman Catholic faith that no one could...
...eight Negroes perished. First issues of the Daily Citizen had a circulation of around 7.500. Principal difficulty of starting a Negro daily in Harlem has always been the popularity of Manhattan's two morning tabloids, News and Mirror. Both papers used to print, inconspicuously inked in at the bottom of cartoons on the sport pages, a series of numerals which mystified white readers. They were random suggestions for hunch players in Harlem's famed gambling game of "numbers...
...article published in the maga- zine of the Columbia School of Journalism Professor Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman of Columbia made the following points: ''That the depression is ending; "That, for the first time in history, recovery from the bottom of an industrial cycle is being speeded consciously and effectively; "That fear of uncontrolled inflation has little basis in fact; "That we are not on the way to Bolshevism, Fascism or any other form of autocracy, but; "That we are in the midst of a social revolution, within the framework of capitalism, which promises lasting benefits...
Following the completion of the parade of the colors, the Harvard and West Point bands will form on the 35-yard markers, facing each other. The program will be brought to a climax at this point by the playing of taps by the West Point bugler stationed at the bottom of Section 46. After five seconds of silence the echo will be taken up by a Harvard bugler ensconced on the topmost rampart of the bowl. When the last faint strain of the echo has been wafted away on the breeze, a one-minute hush will fall over the assembled...