Word: liken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ther may nothing, so God my soule save, liken to yow that may displesen me. Which may be translated roughly as, "Nothing that pleases you displeases...
...more violently, and then once more. "For half a minute the earth seemed to go mad," said a British survivor. "Boughs of trees, normally many feet from the ground, swept the earth. Birds fell from their nests. The moon danced crazily in the sky. The roar I can liken only to the sound of 20 express trains...
...Brock, Dr. Brock took off from Fairfax Airport for his 73Oth consecutive daily flight, a two-year record of flying in all kinds of weather. Sometimes his would be the only plane to leave the ground, so thick was the rain, snow or fog. Although critics might liken his routine to year-round-swimming or marathon tree-sitting, Dr. Brock is not publicity-hungry. He is smart enough to know that his Specialty Optical Co. does not suffer from his own conspicuousness (he was recently received by President Hoover) but he is personally reticent. Last summer he made an aerial...
...Congress: He lives at the expensive but not very fashionable Carlton Hotel on 16th St., often walks the two miles to the Capitol. He motors long distances, goes frequently to the cinema. In Canton, his home, political sentimentalists liken him to McKinley, long a Canton resident and buried there. He is a serious hard-working campaigner. In his current campaign he is being assailed by Negroes for his Parker vote, by Wets who favor his Wet opponent, Democratic Nominee Robert Johns Bulkley. Hard to hold is the Senate seat he now occupies. Frank Bartlette Willis died...
...Testament he says: "One might hesitate to liken it to any modern work of the first credibility, such as Boswell's Johnson or Eckermann's Gespräche mit Goethe, but it is certainly quite as sound as Parson Weems' Life of Washington or Uncle Tom's Cabin." His concluding remarks are a typical piece of Menckenian irony: he describes a hanging he once reported, at which the Baptist prisoner loudly recited the 23d Psalm while the sheriff and the hangman were busied with the final preparations; the fall of the drop cut short the prisoner...