Word: chocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...model youngster, he never got spanked. Early association with grown-ups matured him rapidly and he soon became "a responsible little body . . . with a pretty conservative sense of values." Once an aunt told him he was full of tact. His reply: "Yes, I'm just chock full of tacks." He was always busy collecting stamps, building tree houses, modeling boats, stuffing birds, riding his pony. Recalls his mother...
...continue to make TIME so chock-full of interestingly told news, you will have me applying to the commissaries, since my exchequer will not stand a subscription for each of the five members of my household. There is a scramble to see who shall be first to get the latest copy of prompt-arriving TIME. It usually results that "father" has to read the copy after everyone else has gone to sleep, with the consequence that "father" gets very little sleep that night...
After the primary, newshawks flocked to see Mr. Smith in his high Manhattan office, asked him what the vote meant. He explained: "It ought to put a chock under the bandwagon and stop people from jumping on it, on the theory there's nowhere else to go. Give what happened time to sink in and we'll see." While Massachusetts was voting last week, so was Pennsylvania-but with this difference: no Democratic nominee for President has carried Pennsylvania since the Civil War. Out of some 200,000 Democratic votes cast in a preference primary that bound...
...cost of building having fallen, a prudent corporation is talking of putting up the memorial chapel. Some of the children are bawling in the college papers with that zeal which sounds so funny to their elders, long vaccinated against any excess of that quality. Cambridge and Boston are chock full of churches. What's the use of building a church where nobody wants to go? A building with some athletic object, an infirmary for the martyrs of sport, would be laudable. But a church? Who goes to church? Religion is played out. So the infants bleat, trying to make somebody...
Green Grow the Lilacs is a folk-play whose elements are a good deal more folk than play. Because Playwright Lynn Riggs (Roadside) is a poet rather than a dramatist, his pithy piece is chock full of fine, salty dialog, but the dramatic structure is very slim...