Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mattson, a surgeon and onetime footballer at the University of Washington, said to be comfortably off but not wealthy, was unable to explain what the kidnapper meant when he declared he had "put a lot of money into" the $50,000 Mattson home...
When he found nothing, he said: "I've put a lot of money into this house, and I want to get some of it back." Then he moved over to Charles, grabbed the frightened child under one arm, picked him up bodily. "This is better than money," he said as he backed from the room toward the French doors. When Billy and the two girls ran to the shattered doors, they saw the man fleeing across the soggy rear lawn and down the slope toward Commencement Bay, with Charles held tightly under his arm. In the litter of broken...
...know what Christmas is all about anyhow. I think it is a humbug. ... As a holiday the Fourth of July had it beat a mile. On the Fourth I used to get up right after midnight to shoot off anvils. It made a loud sound. It was a lot of fun. Nobody knows why we celebrate Christmas-to keep up the old bunk I suppose. Some religious people think it is the day Christ was born. They don't know any more about it than a woodchuck." Mrs. Darrow admitted that her husband's opinions were familiar...
...Harkness brought back a supply. She will stay in a refrigerated room in the Harkness apartment until Mrs. Harkness finds a zoo willing to put up $20,000 for another panda expedition. Sighed Mrs. Harkness: "I would love to find Su-lin a mate but that's a lot to expect...
...charge of Ward's retail stores his ambitions for his end of the business were so great as to jar the habitual harmony between Ward's mail order and retail business. Since he moved from Wilmette, Ill. to Montclair, N. J. he has had a lot of fun fishing as a member of the Atlanta Tuna Club at Block Island...