Word: neatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down to Union Square went 70 Tammany district leaders, half of them women. Into the neat Georgian Wigwam they marched and upstairs to the executive committee room. Old John Curry was permitted to speak before his execution. He recalled his lifelong services in the Hall (in return for which, for 23 years, he never held a city sinecure which paid less than $6,000, while he developed a profitable insurance brokerage business on the side). He blamed James Aloysius Farley with fomenting revolt against him. "Now, I don't want to make any accusation against President Roosevelt," he continued...
...tidy rows and neat While the housewives, storemen, janitors, their steps and sidewalks...
...enough for those French gendarmes to unravel, but now-well, let us see what TIME has brought. ". . . Scotland Yard carefully examined the Chelsea, London flat in which the Switzes lived for many months. There they found a new touch of mystery-dozens & dozens of eggshells, carefully blown, with a neat hole in end of each." (TIME, April 2, p. 16.) Now there is a mystery that will make those French Johnnies sit back, take their hats off and scratch their heads. I'll bet those foreign crime-crackers never knew a small pinhole could make such a difference...
Verse of a vigorous order that never pretends to be poetry. Efficiency Expert sometimes puts its matter in neat nutshells, as in this discussion of the Tsarist Russian debt...
...neat little cloth-bound book appearing in September will be the honor given by the Phi Beta Kappa to the undergraduate whose essay is considered by the Committee the best piece of work done during this college year. Departmental and Bowdoin Prize essays will constitute the field from which the essay to be published will be chosen. In commenting on the newest activity of the honorary society here, Professor Chase said, "This is an admirable scheme and a very profitable one for Phi Beta Kappa to undertake. I am much in favor...