Word: fared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drunk. The cab stopped at his destination, the chauffeur opened the door politely, found himself staring into the unsteady muzzle of a revolver. Mr. Green exhibited a certain tipsy truculence in regard to the charges. Said the driver, smiling: "Be reasonable. Give me the gun in payment of the fare." To the somewhat fuddled brain of Mr. Green, the suggestion appeared timely, just. . . . He complied. Later, Mr. Green slept in the police station...
...pelissed jacket beneath a mushroom hat. Sometimes she recalls proudly that her husband once called her "the better man of the two." Mastication. King Albert and Queen Elizabeth consumed only dark, coarse "War bread" throughout the week. Peasants, the bourgeoisie and the nobility likewise masticated this coarse fare. Exporters estimated that some 3,000,000 Belgian francs were saved during the week through this self denial, enforced upon the country by King-Albert, now Dictator of Belgium (TIME, July 26 et seq.). Protest. Delegations of Belgian hotel men waited upon His Majesty last week, petitioned him not to sign...
...Mayor Boess of Berlin. Germany is tightly sewn together by air routes between its principal cities. Officers of state invariably fly hither and thither to great public functions. But Mayor Boess-though, of course, he has a motor, a motor boat, and ample public money for his railway fare, when he wished to go, say, to the Leipzig fair- has lately felt almost medieval without a smart monoplane and liveried pilot...
Summer is expedition time for scientists. They have catalogued and put away in glass cases their last year's finds. They have written their reports and monographs, given their lectures, attended to home duties, and the irresistible itch to fare forth exploring, examining, collecting is upon them again...
...Commonwealth College Fortnightly (Mena, Ark.) recently discoursed on the art of hitchhiking, i.e., the method of progressing from place to place without fare, by the simple means of cadging rides from motorists...