Word: brood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speak disrespectfully of these loyalties; but they make Sir William's Toryism equivocal and they perhaps explain the shrillness of his note. . . . When he went to the Home Office he went with soul aflame to cleanse the social sewers. Drink, gambling, night clubs, all the brood of darkness should know that at last a real St. George was abroad in Merry England. But no blow fell. On each adventure he was quietly and painlessly disarmed, and he learned, what some of us had suspected, that Puritanism is not a strongly marked characteristic of Toryism and that it does...
Meredith Nicholson, Indiana novelist of national repute:f "'The Ku Klux Klan and its brood-corrupt politicians-have cost Indiana at least a billion dollars, and earned my state the title, Land of the Boobs,' said I, caustically, to Indianapolis newsgatherers. 'When I go elsewhere I railed on, 'people don't kid me any more about being from the state of authors. "Is your governor- still in jail?" they ask, and "How's the Ku Klux Klan?" Even with Senator Watson crying "You're a liar!" the Indiana Republicans cannot deny that...
...spirit of concord did not yet brood undisturbed over the Assembly. There were still charges and counter-charges to be heard that had been made during the year between the two extreme wings, and most important of all there was the report of a commission of 15, appointed last year to "find peace...
...England's St. Georges were gathered to slay a brood of dragons?the invading U. S. Walker Cup team?of eight, and a few free-lancing U. S. golfers?as well as to try to carry the title south of the Tweed from Champion Robert Harris...
...until time to recite to the Irish Catholic teacher. At home little Abe is chore-boy, toting water, billets, ashes and the things for beer-making. He rides (without pants, he's a "shirttail boy") the horse drawing the "bull-tongue" plow; he tends his father's stallion and brood mares. Sometimes it is warm and there are good "vittles"; sometimes it is cold as a dead snake...