Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satisfaction to him to dash off the manifold things that come to mind, and it isn't his fault if they publish it. It is, of course, quite natural that he should feel badly at the conversation he heard, no man likes to have his nearest, dearest thoughts the butt of many an idle jest. But he is used to the indiscretion of youth, he knows how they speak in the wrath of the moment and he will pardon them. If they seek not pardon it matters little, he will go on writing whether or no. He will continue...
...English Laureates traditionally have received annually, as part of their governmental encouragement, a butt of good Canary wine. Laureate Masefield, a respectable, spurned the wine. "I simply don't like the taste of it. On the hand, I like its appearance...
Chang's Butt Sirs: How come and for why publicity of Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang with pistol butt exposed in shoulder holster under right arm? (TIME, Sept. 21.) I wonder how many people noticed and commented upon this, and where they live. In this domain of Ross Shaw Sterling where National Guardsmen and Texas Rangers make pistols noticeable, we hardly miss. . . . TOM T. MAIN Tyler...
...silly. . . ." To perform together privately every fortnight will meet Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. William Vincent Astor (pianists), Mrs. Leland Harrison (wife of the Tariff Commission's international relations division head), Mrs. Arthur Woods (wife of the resigned Director of President Hoover's Unemployment Relief) and Mrs. L. Havemeyer Butt (singers). Asked if husbands approved, Mrs. Mitchell said: "One night I had a party for Count Apponyi of Hungary. And he was telling us a beautiful anecdote about how his grandfather had heard a string quartet play one of Beethoven's compositions the first time. Beethoven was an unknown...
Attacked, and immediately counterattacking, was the great $1,282,000,000 Cities Service Co.. led into battle by its wily, picturesque generalissimo Henry Latham Doherty. Some 150 companies form the Cities Service group. Butt of the attack last week was Cities Service Gas Co., formed in 1922 as Empire Natural Gas Co., rechristened in 1927. Chief business of this unit is the transportation of natural gas from wells in Kansas. Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. The gas is piped and sold to local companies in some 175 Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri communities. Most of these, including the distributors...