Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said to me, 'How would you like to have command of the Leviathan?' I replied, 'Stop your kidding.' To my sur- prise, he said, 'I am not kidding. We want a captain for the Leviathan, and if you would like to have the ship, come round to the Shipping Board offices at 4 o'clock this afternoon...
...table, received his promotion with little comment. He was bringing the George Washington through a ponderous North Atlantic storm at the moment. After docking, all he said was: "The bridge of the Leviathan is just a little higher, but I'll be just the same up here. Come...
...know," says the man. "I don't know," says the next man. All is confusion. The firemen have not yet come. The front hall is full of flames. Some men are pounding at the locked backdoor...
Stoutly replied Mr. Cosgrave: "It's stronger. The Dominions are coming around to our way gradually but we have a measure of authority now that they have not-officially. I'm the Prime Minister of the Free State and as such the titular head of the state. The Governor-General is appointed on my advice. He is merely the ceremonial representative of the British King. I come up for election in the Dail [the lower house] and have to be approved by the Seanad [the Senate]. Then I appoint my ministers and they are approved in the same...
...Come to My House. Olive Borden, a synthetic star at best, is herein tangled in elaborately scanty clothes and in the wiles of a blackmailer who has seen her entering the house of a presumably dissolute male friend. The male friend kills the blackmailer and is saved from the iron hand of the law when the heroine confesses her visitation. The invitation in the title should be declined by highly discriminating cine-maddicts...