Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit at the American Legion convention, as a delegate from Texas, and when Dr. Wilson calls the Legionnaires at Detroit a bunch of drunkards, he lies...
Enthusiasm and spirit are getting so worn out by misuse around Yale that it is criminal to bring them up. But is is more criminal to make a bunch of athletic captains and managers do calesthenic exercises to amuse a bunch of mummies in the Bowl...
...refuses to be bribed into silence, his child is held hostage. To save the life of the young boy the entire family decide to withhold its knowledge of the killing, that is, all but the inordinately chauvinitsic grandfather, relic of Bull Run, who refuses to be intimidated by a "bunch of yellow-bellied foreigners". At the climax the child is rescued, and the Civil War veteran gives the testimony that sends the killer to the chair...
...shores of Walden Pond. You'll learn all about conchiliomania (a disease) and how if you get it you're liable to become the father of modern specialization. You'll wish it were a half course; but if you throw together a good thesis and make out a fat bunch of reading cards you'll get a good grade. Anyhow, you can't just ignore Babbitt: either you've got to throw the baby out with the bathtub, or get away with him and be cleansed of all Romanticism, or, if you're really wise, you'll wash away...
Rested and refreshed after a week-end at Lossiemouth, Ramsay MacDonald flew back to London last week with a large bunch of white heather in his buttonhole and posed for his picture in the garden of No. 10 Downing St. Secretary for Dominions & Colonies James Henry Thomas begged a sprig for good luck, so did Stanley Baldwin and the rest. When every buttonhole burgeoned with Ramsay's white heather, shutters clicked at the entire National Cabinet...