Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that of a soldier who, 13 years after the War, is still romantically devoted to a French actress named Duchene, because she once patted his head when he was in a hospital. When Duchene visits the U. S., he goes to see her act and to give her a bunch of camelias. In the middle of her play he goes blind. Practical jokesters later persuade a cabaret girl who is good at imitations to impersonate Duchene. When she does so, she falls in love with the soldier, as the audience has foreseen. He is wildly agitated when he discovers...
...president of United States Steel Corp., James Augustine Farrell, concluded his remarks amid icy silence. He turned to the press table and said: "This is not to be printed. . . . I'm talking here to a bunch of friends as if I were in a mill, and this is not for publication." Then, 1,000 steelmen cheered...
...fruit jar of corn liquor. They talk hopefully of their teams (their baseball team beat Cornell last month; they are proud of their new football coach, Wallace Wade). The local Greek-letter fraternities have no houses of their own, but the members of different brotherhoods are allowed to bunch themselves in the dormitories for a sort of "house plan" life?Kappa Alpha in Kilgo House, Sigma Alpha Epsilon in Craven House, etc. etc.?some of them with faculty members in residence...
...bunch of glass-flowers...
Senator Norris: Mr. Watson . . . used to be, before he became a Senator, a lobbyist. I presume his former masters are better satisfied with his work in than they were with his work out of Congress. . . . Little Jimmie Watson ought to gather up a bunch of marbles, go out and hunt up that boy Lucas [Republican Executive Director] and together they could have a nice game in the backyard of the White House...