Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sherlock Holmes-and the scenes at the railway bookstalls, says a contemporary, "were worse than anything I ever saw at a bargain sale." He demonstrated his own detective brilliance when a colored clergyman was sentenced to seven years in jail for a crime that Doyle was convinced he had never committed. Using Holmes's own methods, Doyle tracked down the real criminal and vindicated the imprisoned parson...
Once Johnny, who had never prayed, said to his mother: "Speaking of prayers, I did think one up." He called it Unbeliever's Prayer and it went...
...investigation of Die Neue Zeitung's policies and staffers was ordered. General Clay, visiting in Frankfurt, was told that Foss had said the paper had been "too much of a lecturer with a raised forefinger," but was now to be regarded "as a forum." Snapped Clay: "It was never the former, and it is not going to be the latter." He ordered Foss to stick to the directives that set it up as the Military Government's official paper...
...play itself, well, it varies a little from year to year, but the third set is always played in searsucker jackets and the epilogue in caps and gowns. Just what sort of comedy the play is--whether it is farce, or burlesque, or tragi-comedy--has never been settled. But that is a matter for pedants to discuss. Today, as the great bard has said, we have another op'nin' of another show, and if it isn't "The Taming of the Shrew," and if it isn't in Baltimore, of all places, what difference does that make, so long...
...season went on the freshmen showed their adaptability. Wynn claims, they can spot their opponents weaknesses from the first serve and take quick advantage of them. And if they run into difficulty they never go to pieces...