Word: come
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quiet little conversation, apparently the talk of two close friends. They had come out of the White House, gotten into step with each other and walked down the lawn, where Mr. President had halted, turned and with a sweep of his arm indicated what a really fine place to live the White House...
...paused and spoke again about Prosperity. One aside in this speech revealed the political flair which he had seldom been suspected of having. Spying some of the train crew in the crowd he said: "I think I ought to tell them I am grateful to them. . . . I have come to think of this strip of railroads across the middle of America as my own Main Street, on which I make my journeys from my office to my own front gate...
Though moving pictures are finding an increasing vogue in elementary schools throughout the country few Universities have made an effort to utilize this graphic method of instruction. The rapid come and go the obvious superficiality of familiar movie films have prejudiced faculties against them and it is with something of a start that one reads of their introduction into a Harvard class room. The reels to be projected by the German department are well chosen however in that they attempt what is preeminently fitted to this sort of presentation...
...idea of Promoter Pickens that the world of sport, like a modern marathon, moves in cycles. The time has now come for a resuscitation of long distance running; the best long distance runner in the world is this jolly timid Algerian, who cannot speak a word of English and shakes hands in a complicated. North African fashion. Promoter Pickens chose him to make the marathon famous again...
Music, Cheers, and songs will come from the train of young women armed with red torchlights and banners, and dressed in costumes varying from those worn by big business men to the attire of a hod carrier...