Word: collection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years as a city official, Supervisor McSheehy took pride in his oratorical blockbusters. He boasted that one reporter was permanently assigned to collect each day's most glaring and improbable McSheehyisms. A belligerent, charming, oldfashioned, long-winded politician who loved the sound of his own voice, McSheehy orated on & on-and was loved for his majesty of phrasing. Students of metaphor-mixing compared him to Philadelphia's famed ex-Councilman Charles Pommer, a slapdash stylist with a less subtle ear ("I have always been man enough to stand on my own two shoulders"-TIME...
They brought the Allied pursuit to a walk halfway between Rome and Florence, gave the battered Tenth and Fourteenth German Armies time to collect their wits. For the first time since the breakthrough below Rome, the Germans made counter attacks...
What will happen to the state insurance commissions which now collect $100,000,000 annually in fees from insurance companies? In his lone dissent, Justice Stone gave a gloomy answer: Said he: "The practical effect ... is to withdraw from the states, in large measure, the regulation of insurance and to confer it on the national government-which has ... no scheme of regulation." This will loose "a flood of litigation and legislation, state and national...
...escort character. If a blue jacket grew tipsy, Nuisance would grasp his sleeve, guide him understandingly to ward a haven. He regularly rode the interurban between the naval barracks at Simon's Town and the nearby port of Capetown. The railroad long ago gave up trying to collect his fare...
...United States who not only would want to read letters from their own sons and husbands but who would be hungry, as I was, for every bit of firsthand information they could get about the lives of our men overseas." From all over the U.S. she began to collect letters, soon had enough to fill three volumes...