Word: bus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth step on the gas and set a-rolling the bus destined to carry the spirit of sportsmanship throughout the world. There is no finer ideal for the spirit of sportsmanship is the essential oil of the Sermon on the Mount. There is plenty of room on the bus for all, working-men, millionaires, ordinary folks, all ages, both sexes, for sport is the most democratic thing--the only truly democratic thing--in the world...
...British Government has now recognized Sovietland, and in London, Bolshies and Laborites are in daily con-ference?when the Soviet delegates can be induced to give up seeing London from the bus-tops?trying to straighten out their economic and financial rela- tions...
Dept. of Study here? (Econ.) (Bus...
...often asks: "How do authors collect dialect expressions?" The answer is, I think, usually, that they don't. Ernest Poole once told me that now that the saloon had vanished as a place in which to overhear conversations, the bus top was the ideal place for garnering a store of epithets, tender and vituperative. That may be; but I am practically certain that with John Weaver it is largely a question of things heard on the run, of the seeping in of idiom, of a certain eager understanding of the way the ordinary mind works. I doubt the accuracy...
Some American tourist threw from a bus a French Negro, a War veteran, who was touring the battlefields...