Word: fetch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete deliverance lies through an act for normal men the most unthinkable. When his young daughter, April, comes to Point Sur to fetch him for her mother, he forces her, passing through incest to the full exaltation of godhood...
...called Auslese wines from the famed Steinberg vineyards, fetch up to 150 a bottle, resemble Sauterne...
...respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill of self-support to fetch a pail of the water of self-respect. ... Author Delafield writes well up to her pretensions, which are neither large nor small...
...above given receipt was broadcast. Then came the question: "What dish is that, then? What is the name of the dish just described?" To make it easier, listeners-in were warned, a few minutes before the receipt was given, to despatch one of their number to the kitchen and fetch the cook. It was felt that an able cook could cry out: "Coffee souffle!" after hearing it described...
President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College: "Some men amused themselves and my white puppy, Riff-Raff, by throwing sticks for the latter to fetch out on the thin ice of Sunset Lake [Vassar campus pond]. Once the stick skittered far from shore. Riff-Raff, scampering after it, saw too late a hole yawning in the ice. He set his feet, slid into eight feet of water. The men on shore idly discussed how best to save the floundering, choking puppy. Not so Celeste Corcoran, 20-year old Vassar senior. Treading lightly but swiftly, crawling the last few yards...