Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patricia Longworth is her name, She is by far the actress best, But to our Turkish chorus dame She's worse, far worse, than all the rest. For she had been the Mother's choice To share with Son the family treasure; She did not thus precisely repoice To lose this heir to future pleasure...
...might ask with what divine insight TIME believes itself to be endowed that it can read the motives in the mind of a boy who takes his own life. Is it not enough for a mother to lose her son without being universally held up to light as the cause for the deed ? Her letter, written in the performance of motherly duty, in all probability had nothing to do with the case. At any rate, it does not fall upon you to judge...
...face and figure of Senator Heflin. The Senator was talking of them. Stung to his feet by the bantering of Senator Copeland of New York, he had risen to renew his attack upon the Catholic influence (TIME, Jan. 31). He had predicted that Dr. Copeland (red carnation) would lose his seat "unless he did some toe-kissing before the next election...
...napkin in his neck and filled his stomach with good food. His stein was always refilled several times. When he became fabulously rich a reporter asked him what was the secret of his success. George Ehret smiled vaguely and, with a big hand on the table, seemed to lose himself in memories. "Ja . . . ja. . . ." The reporter quoted him as saying "Good beer, good health." But George Ehret did not say that. Life was more than food and drink. In the evenings, perhaps, a game of dominoes. No better game. . . . About half-past nine a band was sure to come round...
...being a sportsman. . . ." The wine sang, but served to charm from Lord Birkenhead only his normal reaction to a bounder. "Sir," he said, courteously enough, "I have never seen you before, and I have no desire to see you again." Pause. "However, since you appear to wish to lose ?100, I will dive for that sum from the top springboard of the hotel diving pool tomorrow at eleven...