Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself, Author Ackerley's chief duties were to be tutored in Hindi himself, and to converse with the Maharajah from time to time. That strange potentate, with his Pekingese face and nasturtium-colored tongue, was a fantastic hodge-podge of East and West. Once while out motoring to catch sight of a mongoose which would bring good luck, Tutor Ackerley admired a particular stretch of scenery. Unfortunately that particular land was not a part of Chhokrapur, belonged to the Maharajah of Deori, with whom the Prince was not on speaking terms. "Well, he's got a beautiful State...
...Took two one-day recesses to allow the Senate to catch up on legislation...
Some magazine publishers nowadays behave like pamphleteers. They cup their ears to catch the drift of public conversation, whip together magazines on most-discussed topics?liquor, unemployment, crime, politics, sex?launch them as "one-shotters." If the first issue sells, subsequent issues are published; if it does not, the venture is dropped...
...noisily. ... In Paris a lonely student racked his brain, gazed vacantly from the Salle des Conferences in the American University Union at scuttling trotteurs and lazy cafe-sitters in the Boulevard St. Germain. ... In Ojai, Calif., a student hurried across Thacher School campus, slammed a suitcase shut, dashed to catch a train...
...Tate who was addicted to smoking a corncob pipe in hotel dining rooms, served no masters, feared no groups. Reporter Tate sailed right in, investigated along his own peculiar line. When he reached the end of that line he found a very peculiar hook, with a very peculiar catch, which caused two more...