Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Simon & Schuster ran out of paper after Bob Hope's I Never Left Home had sold almost 1,500,000 copies. They sold reprint rights to the Home Guide Publishing Co., will collect royalties on future printings...
With the assistance of the Adams and Lowell House Committees, the Council is now attempting to collect all unpaid pledges. Also under way at the present time is the preparation of a report on wartime extra-curricular activities...
What prompted Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to collect owls? Why do normally intelligent people collect cuspidors, garters, hearses, thimbles? Very simple, say the Rigbys: collecting is one of the basic instincts-animal as well as human (the proprietor of a London restaurant spent years blaming souvenir-hunting patrons for the disappearance of napkins; eventually he discovered that a fat brown rat had built a nest in the wall of the restaurant, there amassed a collection...
Egypt's Tutankhamen collected walking sticks; Hermann Wilhelm Göring collects stag antlers. You can never tell what a collector is going to collect or why. A woman in Richmond avidly collects toy elephants- for the excellent reason that her name is Mrs. L. E. Fant. The ferocious Ferrante, King of Naples, was fond of collecting his political enemies, whom he had executed, stuffed and mounted, and kept tastefully arrayed in a special room in his palace...
...over the world last Sunday, Anglican and Episcopal priests read the collect for the Sunday next before Advent: "Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people. . . ." But few & far between were the clergy who followed the old English custom of Stir Up Sunday, taking their sermon texts from the collect's opening sentence. Fewer still were the irreverent moppets who piped the day's old ditty...