Word: letting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., who resigned his post as Governor General last April because the Colonial Assembly refused to let him have an automobile (only garbage and soldiers were allowed trucks) must have been piqued to hear that cars were now permitted all over the islands. Fire engines and ambulances filled with war workers screeched through Hamilton; the Army rumbled around in "trolleys"-large trucks formerly used for carrying convicts to work; manager of the Mid-Ocean Club, who owned a car for use within the Club's 200-acre estate, dashed happily back & forth with...
...painted gloomy grey-she was loaded to the jack-stays with tourists hurrying home. Last week Bermudians were momentarily bucked to hear that the Holland-American luxury liner Nieuw Amsterdam (capacity 1,000) had taken over the suspended Furness, Withy & Co. contract, and was sailing from Manhattan. They were let down again when they heard that the passenger list numbered 139, mostly natives returning to the storm-vexed, war-vexed Bermoothes...
Before the News Building was up, the fight began. The Littick family did not plan to let their Zanesville newspaper monopoly go without a struggle. Publisher of the News is Clark Beach, who retired as executive editor of the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette in 1936, was coaxed back to work by Earl Jones. Clark Beach had signed a contract form with a United Pressagent, given him a check for several weeks' service in advance. But the contract was still to be accepted by U. P.'s Manhattan office when the Litticks stepped in and bought U. P. service...
...promise. He used to make it a rule never to read manuscripts submitted to him for criticism by budding philosophers. But applicants learned how to get around his rule: they brought manuscripts to his office. Dewey peeked at them through a crack in the door, invariably melted and let them in. Having promised to read and criticize a manuscript, he always did so-even if he sent it back to the wrong address...
...Cyril Gerard Holland, vicar of Ewell, Surrey, deplored such chauvinist talk. Said he: "Let us at least leave God as a neutral." In John Bull, Rev. William McCormick, popularly known as "Pat" McCormick, of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, hazarded that "God must hate it all ... the evil behind this use of force, the misery and suffering. . . . His is the hardest part. He's in the midst of all the suffering because . . . Germans and Allies alike . . . we're all his children...