Word: neatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Preacher Potter, praise for neat nomenclature. Extracts from his "rolph" speech follow...
...chuckling a typically library-muted chuckle, pulled him for miles along the gallery. After a long walk in silence they came to a large room, set apart from the rest of the great library, which bore a sign over its closed door: EXPURGATORIA. Inside, in a neat row on the shelves of forbidden books, were all the works of Professor Kirsopp Lake...
...been hearing much of late about the organic nature of culture. Your author must confess to a certain haziness upon precisely what this neat idea means, which haziness is not cleared up by reading the many treatises on the subject, Herr Spengler included. Yet many things which are happening today throw themselves so forcibly upon the mind of any reflective person that they simply cannot be ignored. We who live today are apparently going to have the good fortune to observe the break-up of a culture and the relativity of its erstwhile eternal truths, and also the misfortune...
...been placed a card table on which appeared all the evidences of a well-spent evening, even to a tempting-looking lemon rind in one of the glasses. In the way of wall hangings the decorator had draped a tapestry over the bulletin board, and above it in a neat row along the window-sill were arranged the contents of a well-stocked library. The personal touch in these decorations had been achieved by the presence of a sponge doggy peering down from the mail...
Where the shallow, sandy River Platte debouches into the muddy Missouri is Plattsmouth, a neat little Nebraska town of 3,800 population, 21 mi. south of Omaha. Business used to be good in Plattsmouth. Cass County farmers were near enough to the city to diversify and the Burlington Railroad shops always took care of 400 or 500 men. Then for economy the Burlington began to consolidate the shops with its bigger ones in Lincoln. Some of the men followed the shops. Families doubled up and merchants cut down. Depression settled over Plattsmouth like a wintry fog. Six months ago when...