Word: keepeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salad, ices, fruit). Another day he lunched in a corporals' mess room, another in a chateau used by Napoleon before, and by Wellington after, Waterloo. The King's comment to an artillery officer was quoted as his cheering verdict to all ranks: "As long as we keep on the way we are going now, we won't need to worry about the outcome...
...Said the Bishop to his diocesan conference: "The idea that the Church is concerned largely with the upper classes is steadily growing, and I think it is due in part to the fact that we bishops are forced to live in vast houses which are symbols of aloofness. . . . We keep too many gardeners to grow too many vegetables to feed too many servants to make too many beds...
This nucleus cannot, however, keep any Shakespeare play on Broadway for long; the rest is a matter of showmanship. Among Shakespeare's works, Hamlet clearly has an edge because its hero's fascinating, elusive character interests many more people than Shakespeare does. But in general-as Shakespeare productions of the past few seasons bear out-neither a play's fame, nor its subject-matter, nor its length, nor its cast proves very much...
...Parish, walked into the dingy Union Street office of the New Orleans Item one day and asked for a job. Said Marshall Ballard, editor of the Item then & now: "I'll give you $10 a week." Said Huey, grinning as he walked out : "That's not enough. Keep your eye on me-I'm going places...
Milton Cross has won all sorts of prizes for dewy diction, but even he bumbles one now & then. The one he laughingly denies, although many others remember it lovingly, is the time he presented, with great fanfare, "The A & G Pypsies." Last semester, anxious to keep his diction up to snuff, he joined a course at Columbia, but he had to give it up. Too much homework...