Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this the-alre?" he asked. But Lewis, not taken aback by this declared, "What! and have all of us and our little ladies catch cold,-to save that!" and he pointed disdainfully, "Why that was once just a little fiddle which got the mumps, and then look how it grew!" He opened the door graciously and the base violinist squeezed out of the room again...
Some thousands of dogs grew vexed, last week, in the famed Kutta Nagar (Dog City) built near Baroda by the rich and pious Hindu Shet Arjunlal. He, conscious that it is a Hindu sin for man or beast to kill, has impounded dogs innumerable in a 300-acre tract completely floored with cement so that not even a mouse can get in to be killed. There pups eat pancakes-or starve-and big dogs get no better fare than nutted biscuits. Last week the dogs rebelled, as by a secret animal accord, sat back on their haunches and poured...
Lampy's sprightly jester grew tired the other night. His bells lost their occasional merry tinkle. His tongue refused to shape glowing, satirical, malicious phrases. Lampy laid himself down upon his not too smooth bed of humor, imbibed a long draught of sleeping powders, we presume, for nothing else could possibly soothe the torpid vapors of his mind. He pulled the too heavy coverlets of subdued intellect about his ears, and set the clock ticking backwards...
...American College of Surgeons, meeting in Washington last week, grew so indignant about Prohibition,* that they delayed for a day listening to Dr. Charles Horace Mayo tell how to stave off death...
Long ago when little Manhattan girls-they wore flounces and frilly ribbons then-wanted peppermint drops they went to Huyler's confectionery store. Little boys, in Eton collars, went there too, for their lemon drop's and stick candy. Then as the children grew up and migrated, Huyler's stores followed them, to all the important cities east of the Mississippi. A box of Huyler's candies ("A Token of Good Taste") is still the thing to buy, to present. Now David A. Schulte, arch-retailer, owns the stores, having bought them last week from Banker...