Word: catches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rushed off to call on the Governor General, Lord Byng. All afternoon there was another session of the Cabinet. And the evening saw still a third session-a very rare event indeed at Ottawa-lasting until just ten minutes before Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King had to rush to catch his train. Naturally he was tired...
...alumni parade, sheep are slaughtered, four people die quite violently. A very devil of an uncle, yet you and the professor can never be sure it is he who is responsible, let alone how to make him listen to reason. Do not read this book tonight if you must catch an early train in the morning. It makes The Bat (famed play by Mrs. Rinehart) seem a very domestic young chiropter...
Something to Brag About preaches that dull husbands may catch a high polish at any moment. This particular husband comes out of his coma long enough to hold up a neighbor for $1,500. The same day, his wife decided she should leave him for a slimmer, sager...
Specimen Dialect and Moralizing. Wing Foo, cook: "Boss Big Bloy him no catch um happness, nobody catch um happness. Boss Big Bloy him catch um Missee Nola, evlybody catch um happness?that mo bette...
...vegetarian) took a little food, appeared to get new vigor, increased her pace. Seven hours out she was only eight miles from Dover. No previous swimmer had ever made such fast time. Seven hours and five minutes out she called to an Egyptian, Ishak Helmy, who was "pacing" her.: "Catch me, Helmy." He turned. She grasped him and fainted. Aboard the tug she murmured, "I will never try it again." It was her fourth failure...