Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loveller scenes to pass these sweeter hours...
...pious Jews for thousands of years, divorce has simply meant compliance with God's rule as laid down in His theocratic handbook, Deuteronomy (24:1): When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it cometh to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house. . . . Today, as in ancient times, a good Orthodox Jew or his agent obtains a religious divorce by handing his wife...
With all the vigor of a Roy Howard or Robert McCormick, Associate Editor Benjamin ("The Coast Kid") Benson of the Hobo News indignantly declared that things had come to a pretty pass when a journalist could not sell his own paper on the sidewalks of New York. Ready to back his editor to the limit of his resources, the News's Publisher Patrick Bernard ("The Roaming Dreamer") Mulkern and his associates furnished $10 bail when the judge refused to see the case in its broader aspects, issued a ringing statement...
...pipe" mines were closed down tight throughout most of Depression.* But De Beers controls Diamond Corp.. haughty successor to the old monopolistic Diamond Syndicate, marketing agency for the Belgian Congo and other alluvial producers. Except for an unimportant dribble from miscellaneous fields, all the world's diamonds pass through No. 8 Charterhouse Street, London, headquarters of Diamond Corp. In bad times Diamond Corp. buys more than it sells, in good times it sells more than it buys, annual turnover varying from as low as $15,000,000 to as high as $90,000,000. Commercially, even great...
...events slowly unreel is typical of any rainy Sunday when children are allowed to roam within the walls of the house. Bunny, who hated to be forced out of doors just because the sun was out, is allowed his own thoughts and amusements. Dinner table conversations of parents which pass beyond the comprehension of the younger generation, indignation and tears which result from the tantalizing of the older brother, all are described with a fidelity which creates in the reader, the author's own emotions...