Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warnings of the plot to assassinate him as he passes through Baltimore next day. The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail. While the war was still only imminent, many a Northern businessman tried to collect his Southern debts. One of them got this reply: "I promise to pay, five minutes after demand, to any northern Abolitionist, the same coin in which we paid John Brown." When the war actually broke, Secretary of State Seward's first suggestion was to reunite the Union by declaring...
...LITTLE SLAM BONUSES REMAIN AS BEFORE, THEN TIME IS WRONG BECAUSE A LITTLE SLAM VULNERABLE HAS NEVER BEEN 1,000 BUT 750. IF I AM WRONG WIRE ME COLLECT...
Widener Library has often been characterized as one of the most efficient research plants in this country. Whether or not it deserves this praise, Widener's function, among others, is to provide adequate material for scholars who would delve into the past and collect material for future scholars. In seeking to fulfill this function the library subscribes to and keeps on file a number of supposedly representative periodicals. It does not subscribe to a paper directed by the Hearst policy...
...little Jones the more strange, heroic, touching and preposterous. In his dual rôle, as Jones and Mannion, Edward G. Robinson gives his best performance since Little Caesar. Good shot: the mean, mysterious little man (Donald Meek) who first tells the police to arrest Jones, trying to collect the reward for capturing Mannion...
...Ugly Duchess, Josephus) thus explains their publication: "When at the beginning of 1933 my home in Berlin was searched by the National Socialists and nearly all my manuscripts, as well as those entrusted to me by friends in other countries, were destroyed, I thought the time had come to collect those of my shorter stories which I could still lay hands...