Word: payday
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...experience of revolvers, took to firing them in any direction, used them to kill flies. In most camps the soldiers did not think it necessary to dig latrines. Said one bored volunteer, eying the national capital: "Hardly worth defending, except for the éclat of the thing." On payday hell broke loose. Some Zouaves, refused admittance to Julia Deane's bordello, fired pistols at Inmate Nelly Mathews, "who pluckily returned their fire...
...Every payday he bought more books. Du Maurier suggested Dumas, De Musset, Villon (he picked up French) ; De Quincey brought him toward Wordsworth; Hazlitt, by devious means, to the metaphysicians. He read The Origin of Species and a life of Buddha; he bought a Gray's Anatomy and set his hopes toward medicine. Those hopes were forgotten when he happened on Chaucer, Keats and Shelley, who opened "a world where incredible beauty was daily bread and breath of life...
...section had to cover Congress too, and all its clerks. Result at week's end: 53 Senators have taken the oath, more than 1,300 House Office Building employes. Representatives, who always approach such things with reluctant feet, have been backward, but they must take the oath by payday, Aug. 1, or they will get no money...
...than worried. Hordes of Navy wives had rushed to Norfolk to be with their men until the Fleet dress-paraded up to the New York World's Fair next week. Now that their menfolk were off to undetermined ports, many must wait until the Navy's next payday for money to pay holiday debts and get home...
...include two daughters and five sons, and when young Danny O'Neill is living with the grandmother in the comparative luxury of an apartment. The new light it throws on the environment is in its picture of the poverty of the O'Neills, with their excitement on payday, when they know they will get meat for supper, and their painful struggle to keep up some outward respectability in a world where they cannot pay their bills or get credit. And although the characters fight, insult each other, get drunk, beat the children, curse the Jews and the neighbors...