Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passenger tried to photograph him. "My mug is my own property," he snorted. "You have no right to photograph it. I will not consent to it." Between Samuel Insull and his fate lay 28 days and 28 nights at sea, while the Exilona visits Catania (where Mrs. Insull may join her husband), Algiers and Casablanca to pick up cargo. When he reaches the U. S. Samuel Insull will: 1) be arrested-the ship docks first at Boston where Sam Insull Jr. may meet him; 2) be carried off to Chicago; 3) probably be released on bail; 4) face trial...
...Pricup's thoroughness that tripped him up. He found supporters in nearly every garrison in Rumania. Emboldened, one of his men invited the Minister of Commerce in Premier Tatarescu's Cabinet to join. To clear his conscience, the colonel called on the King to remonstrate with him about Lupescu, turned a little threatening. He was thrown out. Last fortnight he put through an order to Sergeant Major Charles Savinau for a case of hand grenades. The sergeant major told his colonel that he thought the grenades were wanted for no good end; the colonel called in the police...
...unpopped corn and a frying pan. He warms the corn and pours it into the rear of the Wolfs baggy trousers. The Wolf, convinced that he is being peppered from the rear by a machine gun, scuttles off. The two frivolous piglets arrive in time to join the celebration at Grandma's cottage. The prudent pig pumps the organ for their dance. Major flaw of The Big Bad Wolf is not that it wildly distorts a well known nursery story. This is Disney license. But Disney license is not enough to explain why Frank Churchill, who scored The Three...
...sincere patriotism of those latter-day Minute Men of 1934 hits the Middle Western farmer, receiving regular handouts from the government, as a particularly sharp annoyance from some small-town Old-Dealers of the East. And the bankers, knowing from experience, what the Minute Men know from feeling, join chorus with Lexington...
First Pope to offer plenary indulgence was Urban II, who thereby encouraged men to join the Crusades. In medieval times a partial indulgence of 20,000 years could be had for a few prayers. Plain people often mistook the meaning of the grant, thought they were getting relief from guilt and punishment by a mere outward act. From the fact that they were willing to pay for indulgences arose the scandalous abuses against which Martin Luther thundered. Today indulgences may be gained in innumerable ways: attending newly-dedicated churches (50 to 200 days), giving alms to charitable orders, visiting certain...