Word: old
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was in the village I come from an old man who was a very devout Catholic. The nearest chapel was six miles from the village, and in order to worship he had to hire a trap-it was before the days of motor cars. It cost him six shillings, and being a Scotsman, he was a thrifty man. His religion compelled him to spend six shillings a week to drive from Lossiemouth to Elgin. But his desire to get good value for his money compelled him to commit the sin of drunkenness on Saturday, in order that he might...
...Americas before. Toronto. Red Indians liked to meet and barter on the site of Canada's second largest city, called it "Toronto" or "Place of Meeting." Here Laborite MacDonald met the American Federation of Labor (see p. 14), raised a cheer by calling himself "still the old workman that I was born." In the afternoon he signed the Golden Book of the Rockefeller-gifted University of Toronto, received the crimson hood of an honorary LL.D. At lunch in the Men's Canadian Club he said: "Unless we can preserve the bond of reverence between us [Great Britain...
Curley Pickett has been a farm hand for the last two years in Corsicana, Tex. Before that he was an elephant trainer for the Al. G. Barnes circus where his special charge was Black Diamond, a land elephant. Last week Farm Hand Pickett, learning that the old circus was coming to town, invited his employer, Mrs. Eva Donohue, to see Black Diamond. When they arrived at the circus the elephants were being unloaded. They stood by and watched. Black Diamond spied them, gave Pickett a malevolent look, wrapped him in his trunk and tossed him over...
...Smith, its first editor, aimed "to erect a higher standard of merit, and secure a bolder and a purer taste in literature, and to apply philosophical principles and the maxims of truth and humanity to politics." The Review was originally Whig; its cover, buff and blue, always proclaimed its old faith...
Like Blackwood's Magazine and the Quarterly Review, its ancient rivals, the Edinburgh Review matured, grew old, sedate. Last week its editors sadly confessed: "Modern readers are not willing to wait a quarter of a year for observations on life, letters, history and society." They announced the Review's demise...