Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decent" woman of wealth makes proper provision for the man who "lives with her" and does not make him feel he is accepting "charity," firmly asserted the Member of Parliament. His wife, who ceased having him live with her in 1936 and tried to cancel a previous financial settlement, sat with averted eyes. So packjammed was the courtroom with Mayfair socialites that some emerged with torn coats...
Egypt's habitable land is chiefly a cobra-shaped ribbon stretching along the Nile from the broad delta at Alexandria to the narrow rocky cataracts of the Sudan border. Along that green cobra live 16,000,000 people, of whom 2,000,000 last week took advantage of fare reductions to journey to Cairo by train, steamer, felucca, autobus, camel and donkey. They went to celebrate the wedding of Farouk, their 18-year-old king, to Farida, meaning "unique," his 17-year-old Queen...
...live chicken (in the strict sense of the term) was left on Colonel Apted's hands Wednesday morning, when the Leverett House janitor refused to take it from the express...
...other two men in the story, however, are too orthodox to live in complete harmony with such spontaneous unrepresed people. The father, a Dutch banker, tries very hard to be broad-minded, but he can't quite make the grade. The moral behavior of the girl's "uh--friend," as the banker describes him, is the most delightfully surprising of all, even though it may be the hardest to reconcile with the idea of a real, consistent personality...
...sermon last Sunday Dean Noe declared: "Unless the Church can demonstrate here in the 20th Century that the life of the Gospels can be lived in full, the Church may as well close its doors." In an interview next day the dean clarified his views and answered Dr. Fishbein by saying: "No man could live on oranges alone, that is, on the natural plane. I have displaced the need for oranges by building up within myself spiritual strength and energy. . . . I intend to prove that the spirit can sustain the body, unaided by food or drink...