Word: gathering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sirs: TSK! TSK! TIME! Such ingratitude! Such treatment of your immortal advance agent! Almost three centuries ago he wrote ''To the Virgins, to make much of Time," and now you filch from him his good name! Tsk! Tsk! TO TIME TO MAKE LESS OF THE "VIRGINS." Gather allusions where ye may, Old TIME is near to lying. Must Robert's name to Richard, pray, Be changed by Herrick's flying...
Asked Trotsky: "Did the consul obtain this letter? ... It is precisely on this score that we cannot gather a single word. . . . Is it conceivable that neither the examining magistrate nor the prosecutor became at all interested? . . Was the letter written and transmitted? Was a reply received? To these unavoidable questions we get no answer. The Gay-pay-oo could not permit the prosecutor any indiscretion within that sphere over which it has been compelled to draw a curtain of silence...
...Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying...
...them for shorts in the spring. Most of the girls come from New England or New York. Many are debutantes. To go out with Williams men and stay out as late as they like, they need only notify the college office in advance. During the winter they ski. skate, gather in a general store for tea and talk. This year some of them are running the store cooperatively, making a modest profit...
...President, seconded by what conscientious Congressmen he can gather about him, seems determined to take a courageous stand against the forces of the American Legion and kindred organizations. The payment of 2,000,000,000 dollars, an obligation which will not mature until 1945, and is computed as with interest to that date, appears to be too much of a burden for the financial resources of the government to bear. The government, in paying the bonus now, would be deprived of the use of those funds for ten years, during which time the compound interest would amount to a most...