Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must let me call you so once more. Your more than kind, your generous letter touches me to the bottom of my heart. . . . For such little time as may be left for me, I shall treasure it as adding gold to the sunset...
...temerity to sue the late Publisher Peter F. Collier and Editor Norman Hapgood of Collier's for libel. As a result of that fruitless sortie, the colonel was prosecuted on a charge of perjury for his barefaced denial that the "O. K., W. D. M." at the bottom of a document was his signature. Famed Lawyer Martin Wiley Littleton won an acquittal by rehearsing for a spellbound jury the story of the publisher's life, loud-pedaling the part about his brilliant Civil War record, notably his service with Custer at Gettysburg...
...Drop" the author finds an old man sitting corpselike in a wineshop, an untasted bottle before him, passively allowing the flies to attack a pimple on his forehead. It develops that for the old man the bottom has dropped out of everything. Gone sour are the immaterial wines of love, hope, desire. Sole remaining comfort, a drop of real grape, his family has denied him because it made him rowdy. Consolation he finds "by coming here and reminding myself that, while my sorrow is real enough now, all I should have to do would be to take a thimbleful...
...Next noonday another pilot who was imprudent enough to fly the short-cut spotted the stranded plane, hurried on to Miami whence an autogiro and two Goodyear blimps were sent to the rescue. Gently the blimp Puritan eased itself down until the men could grasp the railing around the bottom of the gondola, pull themselves aboard. No one could think of a way to recover the airplane, which was undamaged...
...until afternoon was President Hoover ready to act. Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board was with him at the time. Slowly, carefully, a little larger than usual, the President wrote his name at the bottom of H. J. R. 147, smilingly handed the pen over to Mr. Meyer as a souvenir. To the country at large the President declared...