Word: gleaning
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...those who labored hard, three C's to glean...
...Weatherby, a portly widow with a sensuous passion for exotic religions, was flattered to receive them both one hot afternoon. Vain, she did not suspect that d'Astier came only to convert her wealth to the Church; and d'Orobelli to glean some gossip of Annie Spragg. Maundering, inaccurate, patronizing, Mrs. Weatherby said Annie had lived with her fanatic preacher brother at the edge of Winnebago Falls-her only companion a Hack goat, partner in her devilish Bacchanalian dances. That her father had been Cyrus Spragg, "the Prophet" in Illinois of a garish religion founded upon...
Gleaners. As always in such case, men hastened to glean personal benefits from the situation. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, established his intimacy with Mr. Ford; said: "Twice this year I have gone to Dearborn and have talked to him about the Dearborn Independent articles. On my most recent visit?on May 11?Mr. Ford, with whom I spent five hours at his experimental plant, told me he had made up his mind to discontinue absolutely and permanently in any publication owned by him all articles such as those that had given offense to Jews. He added that if his orders...
...mother city of Yellow Cabs). But Chicago cabbies fare thinly, they are so many. Samuel Insull might, on his record, be expected to thin out the cabby ranks, profit fatly by organizing adroitly, eliminate some of the risk that exists when too many cabbies are speeding and dodging to glean a living...
...regrettable indeed that a lady of her apparent intelligence classifies our State as one "where 'Graft' runs wild," and in my despair at reading such slander hurled against our noble commonwealth, I see a ray of probable sunlight, that I glean from the very beginning of her second paragraph, in which she states something about changing her residence, and I sincerely hope that she will cross the. State line, be it east, west, north or south, when she makes that change, as the State of New Jersey will be well rid of such...