Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White sheets bleaching on the hedge, a catch for Maytime whistled along the breeze, a square of redolent earth, a wisp of fine yellow hair blown across the check; these are the objects proper to such...
Sitting easily at his desk, and between handkerchief dabs at his nose, the President revealed that he had taken the U. S. definitely off the gold standard and headed it in the direction of currency inflation. There was no formal statement and the newshawks, scribbling frantically to catch his husky words, were warned that they could not direct-quote the President. But there was the stark fact: the President was embargoing the export of gold. It meant that the dollar, no longer convertible into gold, would have to shift for itself in foreign exchange and seek its own level downward...
Although no definite decision has been made, C. J. Nevin '34, will probably be the other half of the Harvard battery, while G. L. Follansbee '34 will catch for wilson. HARVARD B. U. Carr or Fitzpatrick, 2b c.f., Garabedian Kiernan, s.s. 1b., Rosindtzky Murphy or Locke, r.f. r.f., Nemzoff Lee, 3b. c., Crowell...
...crashed down into the arena. Two Wallenda brothers caught the foundation wire neatly. Another Brother Wallenda caught it with one hand, caught his sister Dorothy, who was falling clear of any possible support, with his legs, squeezed her in a scissors till the ground crew brought a net to catch her in. Then he dropped her to safety, not realizing that he had strangled her unconscious. She revived and is still top poser on her brothers' rickety framework...
...writing of Edward Estlin Cummings is as simple as ABC. Though to many a lay reader his typographical idiosyncrasies suggest a linotyper's nightmare, he is not really so difficult. Not a writer to be nodded over or dipped into at random, neither does he try to catch the reader napping. If he is read as carefully as he writes, he has few Joycean perplexities (aside from portmanteau words and puns); what looks like a puzzling shorthand will resolve itself into a longhand of his own invention, painstaking and descriptive. His latest, like his best-known book (The Enormous...