Word: catches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours later Georgians knew about the catch in Canada. Soon Carnes would be in Atlanta, and many a Georgian, many another Southerner waited to hear what Carnes would say about the million dollars or more which represented the shortages in the accounts of the Southern Baptist Convention's Home Mission Board. Carnes had been treasurer of the board until he left Atlanta on or about Aug. 15, nor had he resigned...
...catch is the phrase "allegiance to the Crown." It recently enabled Governor Sir William Robert Campion of Western Australia to refuse (as His Majesty's representative) to sign a certain money bill passed by the Legislature of Western Australia. Sir William has admitted that he was "guided" by the intimations of the British Government, although technically he was acting only for the Crown. Thus "allegiance to the Crown" is a suave phrase under which the Dominions are left apparently free but actually subject to slight curbs from the Prime Minister and Parliament of Great Britain...
After the ball had changed hands several times, the scrubs punted. Guarnaccia made a leaping catch on his own 39-yard line and dodged and side-stepped his way through the entire scrub team for the second score. The kick for extra point was not tried...
...catch you in error. You say (TIME, Sept. 10) that New York hoodlums broke the beak of a shoebill heron. Newspapers that I have read called it a shoebill stork...
...illumined comedy of the Park Avenue elite is haughty but it's vice. The lady of his piece is married to an urbane cuckold who regards benignantly her indiscretions with a pianist and financier. When he grows tired of her promiscuous activities, she evades his attempt to catch her. At the end, however, trapped with poetic justice, she falls prey to the advances of his private detective...