Word: lined
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...largest U. S. opium-smuggling catch in years, perhaps in all time. The Dollar Line was in danger of a fine of $400,000 for what was presumably the work of skulking yellow employees. At trial, a point in the Dollar Line's favor will be that, some time ago, it invited the U. S. to maintain customs officers aboard its ships. The U. S. declined...
...Senator Robinson is so keen about quoting my immortal prose, here is a line for him : In the present sloppy Democratic shambles, dry ice Robinson wears the harassed look of an Anti-Saloon League sitting timorously on the edge of his chair at a bartenders' convention. Let him turn that on one of his audiences and then try to giggle out of the applause...
...downstate." In no one of his four successful campaigns for Governor did Alfred E. Smith ever carry more than 13 of the 57 counties outside of New York City. This year it has been variously estimated that he would have to meet Nominee Hoover at the New York City line with a plurality of 400,000 to 600,000 votes, to save his State's 45 electoral votes...
Business-likeness is not notably a Byrd trait, though William Byrd II (1674-1744), who outshines his father as founder of the line, had the sagacity to marry two heiresses. Harry Flood Byrd started being businesslike at the age of 14, when he gave up school to take over his father's bankrupt Winchester Star. The Star has paid from then till now. So have another, larger Byrd-paper, the Harrisonburg News-Record, and the 1,500-acre Byrd apple orchards...
...owned Harvard dormitories, occupied by students who had nothing to worry about in the payment of their bills, has now become a straggling group of ugly buildings. The name "Gold Coast" was derived from the profits of the bootlegging industry which was, especially in this territory, on the border line between Cambridge and Somerville, so prosperous...