Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whitewashed houses climb the red sandstone cliffs above Tor Bay, patient Devon fishermen mend their nets and watch for signs that offshore fishing is again allowed. Napoleon paused at Brixham on his way to St. Helena. Brixham fishermen were among the last to abandon sail for steam, but claim to have been the first to find the teeming Dogger Bank in the Bay of Biscay...
...freedom of worship seems to be his genuine love for the Russian people. ... I cannot read his mind and cannot therefore give his actual motive, [but] it was welcomed by the people longing to worship. There is the explanation that the grant was made for political reasons. However, the claim that it was inspired by Stalin's love for the people was substantiated by an ambassador to Russia who knows and understands the country. The ambassador, who is non-English speaking, said that Stalin wanted to give something to the Russian people because he had to take away...
...thief, bored stiff by the good life, scamper back to the bad one. For a final joker, Maugham shows that the exemplary Sheppey really is sick: he has been having visions of a strange woman, who turns out to be Death and comes, at the end, to claim...
...ever disputed the claim, which Henry Junius Schireson once made under oath, that he is "king of the quacks." He has practiced medicine for 40 years, the last ten in Philadelphia, without a degree. He has long been the untroubled butt of pained outcries by the Journal of the American Medical Association, of several legal charges and trials (for mayhem and dope peddling). He has been the subject of a movie (False Faces) in which a patient shoots a doctor after losing a suit for malpractice. Last month the Philadelphia Record began a series of articles on Quack Schireson...
...Record articles began, Philadelphia had received Schireson with open pocketbooks. A thrifty man, Schireson paid aging Dr. Nathan Smilie $25 a week for the use of his name, carried on in an elegant office while Dr. Smilie stayed home. Schireson advertised himself as a kind of super-beautician: he claimed to have glorified Greta Garbo, Peaches Browning (face fixed and fat legs pared), the late Queen Marie of Rumania, Lady Diana Manners, Mary Pickford and a politician listed as "Mr. X."* Most of these people had never heard of Schireson. But his bona fide patients claim that Schireson...