Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although speculation after sale of the Arena late in December hold that the barn-like structure might still be used for sports events, announcement from the buyers yesterday indicated that the prospect is dead, if it ever existed...
Benny had been taught to hold the mouthpiece between his front teeth and his lower lip, while Kell used only his lips...
...next December will mean another loss ($2.9 billion a year) in revenue. In the tentative budget prepared by the Truman Administration for the next fiscal year, there is a forecast of a $6 billion bookkeeping deficit. Hence, Eisenhower will have to cut spending $8 billion, at least, and hold off the congressional tax cutters to meet his goal of a balanced budget. If he can roll up a surplus, then taxes will be cut to the extent of the surplus. He thinks it more important to keep up the buying power of the nation by tax reductions than to build...
...Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, alias Baron Corvo, was born in 1860 with (it would appear) a hole in his head. It was by no means the usual cranial gap of infancy but, according to those who had felt it, a "perceptible hole." Though markedly intelligent, he never caught hold at school. He quit at 15 and bounced about such places as Oxford, probably on allowance from his father, a piano manufacturer. At 26, after taking a few places as schoolmaster, he was converted to Roman Catholicism and entered preparation for the priesthood...
...seized hold of the iron bedstead and clung for dear life. He was dragged forth, wearing only his pyjamas . . . His clothing was thrown after him." A Point for Jesuits. After this disaster, Rolfe tried to have himself committed to an insane asylum, then fled to London and buried himself in surly isolation, getting queerer by the minute. He always contended that he could speak cat lan guage, and he proved it by jabbering in the moonlight in such a way that the local tabbies came by dozens and prowled between his legs. He wore a ring with a sharp spur...