Word: nay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encouraging word from the millowner's wife. The first complication was the millowner's disgust when Herrie joined his fellow-workers on strike. In the starvation-haunted months before the workers were beaten, Herrie reciprocated that disgust, discovered the bitter source of such humor as: "Nay, you don't have to bring no hard times to Skirthorpe. . . . This is the exporting center. . . ." Herrie's part in the strike ended when he was badly injured in a cave-in while stealing coal. Recovered, he joined his blacklisted friend Tawpun as a riveter in a neighboring city...
...Anglican Bishop of Calcutta, onetime (1885-98) headmaster of Harrow School; at Sevenoaks, Kent, England. Among his Harrow pupils were Earl Baldwin and Winston Churchill. Bishop Welldon recently remarked, "I will probably go down in history as the headmaster of Harrow who was forced reluctantly to punish -nay, even to flog-a rebellious Winston Churchill...
...Fran. Nay, answer me: Stand, and -unfold yourself...
...Last of all, I believe in the 'disregard' game, which consists of strolling nonchalantly by the procession and completely ignoring every likely petticoat. This is the subtlest of my tricks and can only be practiced by an intelligent person. Occasionally -- nay, perhaps more than that -- even this will not bring response. In that case, there is but one other alternative: hurry over to Radcliffe; they're forever home...
...Hall yesterday noon were there for any other reason than to "laern more knolege"? They would not be there to see the New Lecture Hall, for undoubtedly many of them had seen it before. They would not be there to meet the renowned Dr. Arnold N. Childes, for few, nay none, had ever heard of him. A man who looks before he leaps would have looked up Dr. Childes in Who's Who in America to see "how well known for his work" in the field of birth control he was. But oddly enough, he would find neither birth control...