Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortune set your lot in happy...
...Saint-Jean-de-Luz were not made clearer by the fact that the captains of three of the stymied British freighters were named Jones. A consular clerk speeded matters considerably by naming them after their respective cargoes: Potato Jones, Ham & Egg Jones, Corn Cob Jones. Bravest of the lot, because he is part owner of his ship, was Captain David (Potato) Jones of the Marie Llewellyn. Attempting to run the blockade, he nearly ran down the British destroyer Brazen, was shepherded back to port where his cargo began to spoil. Finally, purple with rage, spewing rotten potatoes behind him, Captain...
...Polish and therefore Aryan" (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935). Pink with pleasure, Actress Negri cried: "The whole world knows that I am a Catholic. . . . Der Führer must be a brilliant man. I haven't met him, but I would like to. You know, I have a lot of big men in my memories...
...among the younger generation. In past years the clarion call of "Rheinhardt" was enough to set the manly, virile blood of our predecessors in motion, and spur all good Harvard men into action. But times have changed, and past generations of men are being supplanted by a third rate lot of "wee cowering timorous beasties...
Yardlings, the stigma of weakness is upon you! It is up to you to show the powers that be that you are not a craven, crawling, spinc less, lot and that true to Harvard tradition you can riot with the best of them Are you Men or Mice...