Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...introduced to the President and had a ten minutes talk. He did not impress me in the least. He told me his grandfather and grandmother both come from Ulster, but met for the first time in America. He said he had a keen sense of humor. He has not yet been for his trip around the devastated country and he is so angry with the Italians that he has given up his Italian trip. No. He did not impress me in the least. But my conversation was too short, and our subjects too general, to allow me to form...
...pointed out with great pride to visitors. It is related that he would sit there for hours looking at the buxom dairymaids making cheese, afterwards explaining the merits of his famed dictionary to his friends. Exhausting this subject for the time being, he would rise and say to Boswell: "Come, let us walk along Fleet Street...
...said that Jimmy was too young. "In a few years we'll see," said Father Hannan. In a few days Jimmy came back to the Church. Father Hannan was away, and Father Orsini said that since it was too rainy for any of the regular altar boys to come Jimmy could put on a cassock this once. So at evening benediction James Walsh stood up solemnly near the altar for a while. He enjoyed it greatly, but perhaps, he thought, God would punish him for his vanity...
They need not have come. Prof. Thurston, pleasant-spoken gentleman soon won over his audience, told how many a so-called medium had asked him for tricks to fool gullibles. "But," admitted Magician rhurston, "I was quoted incorrectly. All spiritualistic phenomena cannot be reproduced with a small watch. There is an intelligent psychic force which can manifest itself but everything done at a stated time and for money is likely to be trickery." Thus mollified, the spiritualists beamed kindly up at Mr. Thurston in the pulpit. A collection was about to be taken when a member of the magician...
...King George III that they protested against rebellion by trekking off into the Canadian woods to found a new colony. It was no small sacrifice for these Englishmen to fight the battle against the wilderness all over again. Their loyalty to England cost them dear. Like ail things that come dear, it has been cherished. Even today Toronto considers itself the most loyal city in the British Empire...