Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criticism is out of fashion? One is always at loss somehow in endeavoring to avoid becoming the Pharisee and declaring self-righteously, "There, but for the grace of God, go I." For the Romantics were good poets but very unlovely men, and Byron was the most unmanageable of the lot. Despite his years at Harrow and at Cambridge, Byron never quite learned what was cricket and what was not. If many of his acts had been committed by anyone other than a poet, that person would long ago have found himself in the dock of the historians' Old Bailey...
...suggesting that you do it now, when there is a lot of money floating around, and not wait until you are skinning the budget to the bone in order to make up for past extravagance...
...last year for the CCC and I got a lot of stage money from the WPA. I call it stage money because you can pass it around but you cannot get anything out of it in the end. Now the CCC is a fine thing-the best thing perhaps in the whole relief program. But the $45,000,000 I spent on it last year will all be gone next year. Give me $38,000,000 for Army housing and my great-grandchildren will show it to your great-grandchildren 50 years from...
...fire. What Collector Isham actually paid for the Malahide papers he refused to say; guesses run from $300,000 to $500,000. That was in 1927. Because he cannily bought all the Boswell papers in Malahide Castle, when Lady Talbot three years later discovered another lot in an old croquet box, Isham got them...
...held in his younger days, Mr. Frost said: "I was at Dartmouth for a while, and during the five years between that and the time I entered Harvard I did all kinds of work imaginable-factory hand, cobbler, mill worker, reporter and editor on the Lawrence, Mass., "Sentinel". A lot of these fellows who rave about the troubles of the "working class" probably never saw the inside of a mill in their lives...