Word: kept
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...afternoon waned, dinnertime came, then night, but still the Deficiency herdsman stuck to the floor: explaining, arguing, wheedling votes. Hot Senatorial tempers kept the galleries lathered with laughter. But Adams and his adjournment-bent majority held their lines, beat off all amendments, brought the Third Deficiency Bill safely through the gauntlet...
...Concession, originally belonged to the North China Government at Peking. In 1935, when the Central Government at Nanking reformed its finances on the advice of Britain's Economic Adviser Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, it requested that the independent North China Government give up the money. Peking refused, kept the money in Tientsin. The money was therefore never Chinese but North Chinese, argued the Japanese, and ought to be handed over to the Japanese-controlled Provisional Government...
...Lombard, the enameled professional finish of oldtime Actor Charles Coburn as Alec's conventional father. Surprising to many cinemaddicts, however, will be the effectively venomous performance, as Alec's mercenary wife, of Cinemactress Kay Francis. Having worked out a long-term contract with Warner Bros, which kept her in the top money (over $5,000 a week) but buried her as the suffering woman in a string of B pictures, sleek Cinemactress Francis in her first free-lance job shows that she still belongs in the A's, that, properly encouraged, she can even pronounce the letter...
Still the messages kept coming. One reported that 38 persons, one a woman, had gone down. This was signed off with "Okay, big boy." Another message charted a strange position: "Eighteen days out of Calcutta, 40 miles south of Hialeah." (Forty miles south of Hialeah race track lie the Everglades.) After several hours: "Don't speak English." Last message, toward 5 a. m.: "Will sink in two hours. Ten inches of water in my room...
Half a century ago a short, canny, sandy-haired young farmer named James Edward Rice decided to put his hens to a test. He built a sort of coop which trapped each hen and kept her there until he let her out and scored an egg or a blank. At year's end his flock's batting average was only about 65 eggs a year per hen, about the U. S. average. Into the stewpot went hens who didn't make the laying grade. Up went the batting average of Farmer Rice's flock...