Word: reins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bearings, curb bits, paper cloth, tug chains, tea, coffee, and food-tins, trench cups, paper wagon-curtains, wire cutters, sack fillers, forks and spoons, burlap halters, holsters, mess kits, fur-covered knapsacks, canvas knapsacks, saber knots, trench lanterns, flamethrower nozzles, ornaments, sweat pads, tent pins, tent poles, a paper rein, ropes, saddles, saws, shovels, spurs, straps, stirrups, sur-cingles, paper tape, torches, traces, a paper whip, wagons, carts, other vehicles, empty shells...
Every author yearns at some time or other to write a book of the weird or supernatural. Recently May Sinclair gave herself rein with such a book and now E. F. Benson, rather than suppress the desire and become such stuff as Freudians feed on, has written "Visible and Invisible." (Dorah...
...forms and precedents and traditions; in one of his latest public utterances--almost Gladstonian in tone--he has praised the Scotch Sabbath as compared with the Continental Sunday. It is no wonder that his wilder supporters from Glasgow--the irrepressible Jack Jones and others--should often chafe under the rein and that even his closest friends should bewail the fact that he so seldom chooses to rise to heights of impassioned and inspired defense of Socialistic ideals. But he has made the choice and they must be content with his decision. More serious in its tendencies to weaken the Labor...
...naively numerous, but originally it had some serious, even tragic moments; except for the opening scene on the "love boat", where impecunious Chinese fathers sell their extra daughters to close-fisted connoisseurs of female charms, and several passages in which Miss Bushnell, as Ming Toy, is given free rein, the St. James version is entirely comic, though certainly no less entertaining on that account...
...agricultural country and therefore by far the stronger party will always be that which is supported by the peasants. Stanboulisky and his Agrarians succeeded in keeping the peace within the country and without and it will be but a question of time before they again hold the rein. In the interim Europe can only hope that nothing will occur of such violence as to upset the precarious balance of the Balkan Peninsula...