Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth of buildings, finally retired to spend the rest of his life in his native Birmingham. Proud Kiwanians were anxious to gather him back in the fold, but Engineer Joy's ideas had changed. "You're nothing but a backslapping, song-singing, weekly-lunching bunch!" he snorted...
...Roosevelt had to withdraw behind three White House aides. They made a pilgrimage to Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Arthur E. Brigden, 67, of Marathon, N. Y. announced that, after considerable research, she had discovered that Martha Washington was "a thorough housekeeper, looking after every detail of household affairs, with a bunch of keys always hanging by her side." To pay homage to such desirable virtues, the A. C. W. W. laid a wreath on the first First Lady's tomb, ignored her husband...
...Three Women" tells the story of the Communist Revolution in terms of the lives of three girls whose maturation is intertwined with the events of 1914-1919. Their blood-red songs electrify a barroom full of drunks in stirring manner, and later the whole bunch does a through job of massacring some White first-aid workers. There is thus very little of the tender or the suave, but the proletarian vigor is abundant...
...about scowling blackly. Snorted Judge Henry P. Field, in whose office Calvin Coolidge got his first job: "It's a disgrace to Northampton!" Equally uncomfortable as the parade of shabby possessions trickled past, Lawyer Ralph W. Hemenway, Calvin Coolidge's onetime partner, explained they were "just a bunch of junk...
...bevy of deep-bosomed young women in the striped skirts and handkerchief headdresses of the peasants of the Roman Campagna broke through the guards, nearly mobbed the Dictator. All their noses were carefully powdered and some had lacquered finger nails. II Duce was delighted. From one he took a bunch of flowers; another he chucked under the chin; at a third he cocked a roguish eye. In the best of moods he invited all the foreign correspondents present to lunch. In a body they moved on to a dusty little trattoria whose proprietor, trembling with excitement, rushed from house...