Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feeble public response) to raise the rest of the $10,000 expense money promised him. Hopping mad, Captain Walters, who had already received $4,000 from the committee, demanded that they produce the rest "immediately or else-." So saying, he stalked out of the room, vowing never to bring his Bluenose down to the U. S. again...
However, Baxter continued, the imperialist movement just beginning was to "bring the two countries together." Aroused by jingo editors, and bursting with nationalism, America was on the outlook for new foreign markets. Cleveland's Venezuela message in 1895 provided the spark for a conflict, but, Baxter said, "the crisis cleared the air." Instead of war England talked of conciliation, and in 1897 the charm of John Hay, ambassador to Great Britain, served to improve relations...
There came the plunge into war with Cuba, Baxter went on, which the British press applauded by praising our humanitarian sentiments, while hoping that our abandonment of isolation would bring alliance. Climax of the progress toward friendship between the nations, Baxter concluded, was Great Britain's concession in 1901, which sanctioned America's building of the Panama Canal and at the same time signified for England a diplomatic break-up with Germany...
...work comes from the eighth Eclogue of Virgil, the subject of which consists of two love songs sung by Damon and Alphesiboeus. The poetic basis is found in the second love song in which a Thessalian girl has restored to magic incantations in hope that she may bring back here truant lover Daphnis. As she chants, she repeats again and again, "Ducite ab urbe domum, mea carmina, ducite Daphnim." (Draw from the city, my songs, draw Daphne home"). This refrain is very effectively entoned by three trumpets behind the scenes...
...saddest part of this episode is that these contributions are being used in a desperate effort to defeat a charter which, if adopted, would bring greater security and better working conditions for every employee of the City...