Word: bring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME timely? Does TIME "bring all things...
...fight, I just want to condemn the general tone and contents of Henderson's letter as an unpatriotic utterance and say that there is no glory in patting a wife and mother on the back and saying: "Your son or husband died a hero." That does not bring them back. What good would it do for Coolidge to take a flight? He's not seeking publicity. He does not need it. He's known and loved throughout the world and I say this although I am a Democrat at heart. I'd vote for a Republican...
Poles under sentence to hang were worried. They know that a noose smartly drawn up (with knot close under one ear of the condemned) will bring instant, pain less death, by snapping the neck. Such have been the nooses of experienced Hangman Maciejewski, a onetime medical student. On the other hand, a loose and slovenly noose brings slow strangulation, lingering agony...
...clings, though Johnny escapes the indignant mob to a distant Irish village. He foreswears his occupation, and, a lover of love and beauty, falls in love with an affectionate but unimaginative woman. Practical, ambitious, Anna persuades her moonraking Johnny to earn occasional hangman's fees, and bring home the dead man's things, now a decent coat, now a stout pair of boots. Tortured by this necessity, Johnny broods over his ropes and ring, croons the ugly details to a fascinated small son, demonstrating with a grotesque rag doll on a miniature scaffold. In a drunken brawl...
...officials will be easily distinguishable upon the field of play. R. U. M. Whortleberry, graduate student in the Cornell School of Dentistry, who is an expert at the noisy collection of superfluous bluebooks, will beam happily at any question and bring in the ink, Q. Caboose, graduate student from N. Y. U. who hates undergraduates, will wear pince-nez glasses and a soiled collar. And Johan Wisteria, former student of the drama at Yale, the Tubercular Cough in several plays by Eugene O'Neill, will be identified by his stage whisper and his inability to diagnose approaching rupture until...