Word: nay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan on their way to Boston to conduct a nine-day revival. Sister Aimee was svelte and blonde; on her last visit, newsmen recalled, she was plump and redhaired. Of her husband she said: "The first time I heard David sing was four months ago. He was singing 'Nay, I Will Not Let You Go,' and as I listened I felt myself blush to the roots of my hair. . . ." In Boston Mayor James M. Curley pointed out that Texas Guinan had promised to give half the proceeds of her show to the unemployed. Sister Aimee agreed to share...
...past. Tonight is one of those rare occasions. Though Pieadilly has changed and the poppies and lilies have faded, Gilbert and Sullivan remain. Tonight at 8.30 he will go to Paine Hall to hear the modern Damon and Pythias talked and sung about. It won't be the same, nay it can't be the same. There is no royal box, no short one between acts, but the substance is there, and Spinoza built a whole philosophy on the theory of substance...
Like oldtime court jesters, newspaper colyumists are privileged-nay, obliged- to play horse with the serious news of the day. But just as the jester was in danger of having his head lopped off if his boldness should outrun his wit, so must the colyumist watch carefully lest he shock the Average Reader's sensibilities. Readers of Colyumist Harry Irving Phillips (''The Sun Dial") in the New York Sun one day last week wondered whether he had gone...
Neville Chamberlain might make a great leader of the Conservative Party. But outside of England his merit, nay even the fact that he exists, has been obscured by the fame of other Chamberlains, his relatives. Old Joe Chamberlain, he of the haughty monocle and the orchid boutonniere, was a leading British political boss at the turn of the Century, though he never became Prime Minister...
...surrendering the duties imposed upon us by the Constitution. ..." But when the vote came on Commissioner Edgar Brossard, accused of representing the beet sugar interests, Senator Borah was found paired for him, presumably because Idaho produces sugar beets. Senator Borah has said: "I am proudest of my 'Nay' votes...