Word: ejectment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...made fine workmanlike shoes. He ran fourteen miles with a bullet in his groin, eluding a gamekeeper, dismist Luke's offer of assistance scornfully, and died unlacing his boots. Luke's mother, at the beginning of the story threatens to strike the bum-bailiff who has come to eject them from their home and tells him he can thank his damn stars it is the Book of God she is carrying...
...Following his hurried, jumpy, journalistic style through its thorough-going exploration of the intricacies and brazen sin of municipal graft. Steffens's audience would read avidly to the last word, throw up its hands in horror at the wickedness of the Big City, make up its mind to eject these bad men from office and place good men in their places, and in short, wholly misinterpret the arch-muckraker's meaning...
During the struggle Britain's common-sense Raj yielded first on a minor point. Viceroy the Earl of Willingdon's much publicized order to eject the Mahatma from jail and detain him under guard in another place (TIME, Sept. 26) simply was not carried out. Instead Mr. Gandhi was moved to the largest room in Yerovda Prison and it was thrown open to delegations and personages of all sorts who ceaselessly moved in & out, arguing or pleading with the Great Soul who remained cheerful but unmoved, inflexible in his purpose: To eat no food until His Majesty's Government reached...
...cell Mr. Gandhi placidly told his British jailers that he defied them to eject him on the "humiliating terms" that he must be detained in some other place. As to his fast the Mahatma appeared cheerful...
...Last week Sheriff-eject Farley became tsar of New York City's racket-infested cleaning & dyeing industry. Salary: $50,000 a year...