Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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enterprise before we start to tell them it is all run by a bunch of crooks and is no good." To the delighted reporter, Robey then proceeded to announce his conclusions from his textbook study...
Coach Kari Michael is bringing a bunch of victory-hungry Big Green mermen down from the Hanover hills to meet Hai Ulen's undefeated Crimson squad tomorrow night. The Indians have been defeated only by Yale and are primed to score their first tank win ever Harvard...
...more so. With perhaps 500,000 men in Africa and elsewhere abroad, they had 2,000,000 regulars at home with half a million under training as second line. Of 1,700,000 Home Guards, over half were already first-class supporting troops. Last June they were just a bunch of game wardens, armed with hunting guns and museum irons. But by last week they were better equipped than World War I soldiers, and were organized, throughout Britain, on efficient military lines. Behind the first defenses, the whole country was so tightly mobilized that children were already organized into experienced...
...four rehearsals, Papa Stock put the businessmen through many a bad moment. He told the basses: "You sound like a bunch of old ladies." He bawled out Dr.J. Peerman Nesselrod for offside piccolo peeps. Thanks to Dr. Stock's business like drilling, in the orchestra's 20th-birthday concert the businessmen tackled Dvorak's New World Symphony and a sheaf of shorter pieces (including a Symphonic Waltz by Papa Stock) with a precision which other amateur groups could well envy...
Threatening legal action if Mrs. Patrick Campbell's executors publish his 125 love letters to the late, great actress before he dies, whiskery old George Bernard Shaw pshawed: "Forty-five years ago, everybody wrote love letters to Mrs. Campbell. I know she thought mine the best of the bunch, though personally I thought those of Burne-Jones more interesting. . . . Before the copyright expires they will, I hope, provide for the education of Mrs. Campbell's great-grandchildren, but they must wait till the old gentlemen who wrote them can no longer make them ridiculous by their white hairs...