Word: nays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...house has risen; it is given Not by one citizen or State; it stands, Given to ns by many hundred hands American and British; nay, each race Upon this earth has helped to build this place. Lovers of Shakespeare everywhere have striven. Every man gave it out of all earth's lands...
...spring night in 1878, the Captain of the "Pinafore" trod his first deck, and the eternal Victorian verities of "yea" and "nay" crumbled at the Captain's "Well, hardly ever." In a year's time, more than a hundred Captain Corcorans were cavorting nightly on as many stages in America alone, and "that infernal nonsense Pinafore" was running in everyone's head. No clergymen dared say "never" of a Sunday morning, for fear of a snicker from the pews; and when a minister intoned "For He Himself hath said it," some rogue would be sure to whisper...
...this and previous years, the correspondents were, I think, quite right in opposing. The first two, that the Army and Harvard have no interests in common, and that Army-Harvard games are not popular, found a straight division of the house, with the CRIMSON voting "Aye", the graduates "Nay". But both stands on these questions are un-provable, and the questions themselves really extraneous. The third point is the CRIMSON's sneering tone, which is, of course, insupportable...
...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...