Word: near
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prepare plans for railroad consolidation. He was also skeptical about the Commission's ability to evaluate the railroads, a problem before it since 1906. But he was inclined to be lenient in this regard, feeling that such valuation is impossible and would cost millions & millions to bring anywhere near completion...
...this fashion, last fortnight, did Nicholas B. Jones. 87, Civil War veteran of Enid, Okla.. describe a Lincoln-Shields duel near Springfield, Ill. He said it took place in 1861, when Shields, later Civil War general and Senator from Illinois and Missouri, was state auditor. Letters deriding him appeared in the Springfield Journal. He accused Lincoln, who refused to retract. According to the accepted ver sion of the Lincoln-Shields affair, broadswords were chosen and a site on the Missouri shore some 50 miles away. But friends interceded, prevented the duel...
Serena Blandish was born near the docks of London. When she grew up, she was carried off by a Countess who wished her to make a brilliant marriage. This Serena was incompetent to do. She accepted a ring from a Jewish jeweler and she accepted a luncheon engagement with Lord Ivor Cream. The ring led to embarrassments and the luncheon engagement led, not to another engagement of a more permanent nature, but to tea. Martin, the Countess's butler, gloomily observed: "A lady who stays to tea where she has been invited to luncheon never gets engaged...
...women and children about a student building, such as the House, would not be wholly desirable. Care in selecting the location of the married tutors' apartments might do much to eliminate any disadvantage on that score. Peterkin believes that the unmarried men should be scattered throughout the Houses, keeping near enough to their tutees to be of educational and social benefit...
...table twenty-seven. I know, I have see his lips move. How?. . . .I had an Aunt Minna, who used to stay with us. Sit down, Joe. You never could catch him through the Delivery Desk. By now he's halfway down. Next time we will. Tomorrow you sit over near that door and I'll sit at this one and then when he comes you come over and get me or I'll come over and get you and we'll go and sit at his table. Then you ask me something about how's my reading...