Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign to spread discord among the United Nations to be "as shrewd, as ruthless as any plot of the Borgias." Axis radio spray to the U.S.: "American policy is dictated in Downing Street . . . will leave America holding the bag." To Brit ain: "The British Empire is dissolving like a lump of sugar in the Roosevelt teacup...
...small part of the 36,000,000 British adults belong to the Church of England, whose membership is only 2,294,000. This is not much more than England's 2,200,000 Roman Catholics, or the 1.938,700 Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists and others whom the Anglicans lump under the heading of "Nonconformists." Attendance at Church of England service is known as "going to church." Attendance at any other Protestant service is known as "going to chapel." In the U.S., the Federal Council of Churches was formed in 1908, but the Episcopal Church (affiliate of the Church of England...
...Bless the Child (Bea Wain; Victor). Billie Holiday's new hard-times song, sung with the appropriate lump in the throat...
...still carries a large lump in back of his left ear from approaching a pretty girl in Times Square during the '20s. "Good afternoon, madam-" he had no more than begun when, blam!, something pile-driving hit him from behind. Jimmy turned over and literally threw a punch from the pavement. After the cops had pulled Jimmy out of the crowd and heard his explanation, they told him to beat it and returned to chafing the wrists and temples of the girl's escort...
George M. Cohan was at Sam's apartment a few hours after his death. He couldn't talk to reporters. It gave him a lump...