Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reaching the town hall the Archduke walked up the steps in a towering rage. Snarled he to the mayor: "Mr. Mayor, I come here on a visit and I get bombs thrown at me. It is outrageous. Now you may speak...
...advised her to be careful. Mrs. Gunn, who often had to go five times to her daughter's room to say goodnight, who had often had to quiet a mighty fear by leaving a crack in the door to the lighted hall, listened carefully. Then she said: "You come with me. I'm going to teach you a lesson." She put her small daughter in a closet, closed the door, locked it, listened to her daughter's screams and walked away...
...White) in Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Shortly before midnight he disclosed to them a plan dear to his heart. He would found an actor's club, to which would be admitted men in the varied arts, and in which the best of the writing, painting and music world might come to learn that the actor, too, is a gentleman. Mr. Booth was distressed at the slight repute in which his profession was held before the world. He would give his home to this club; his treasures of the theatre. The Players stands today in the same little house...
...Uninvited Guest. Every now and then a mountain play just has to come in to relieve some playwright's mind of the discovery that simple folk suffer strenuously. This is one about a young wife, an ancient crabbed husband, a philandering preacher. The arrival of a baby not the husband's proves troublesome...
There he spoke with mild wonder of a short visit to Atlantic City calculated to lengthen, not abbreviate, his life; deplored the fact that his creditors had "come down so hard" on him, assured everyone that the embezzlement charges brought by a Mrs. Jennie C. H. Denton, who claimed $150,000, need not have been pushed so vigorously; promised: "If I can only get time to do it, I can make these debts good...