Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then John Markle rose from his seat, kept in his mouth his fat cigar, bowed slightly to the 400 luncheon guests, uttered no word, sat down...
Last week a not altogether dignified chorus of disappointment and disapproval rose from within the walls of English universities. London University, which enrolls 3,000 students in the world's most imposing school of economics, had needed a man for its .top economics ; chair. The, school's director and governors had 'called from the U.S. able Economist Allyn Abbott Young of Harvard. While Britons grumbled and groused, Director Sir William Beveridge anything but mollified public opinion by admitting frankly that Britain had no suitable candidate. Sir Josiah Stamp, one of the governors, stoutly maintained...
...dramatization of scenes from "The Pickwick Papers", but it is blessed with what the billboards advertise--and for once correctly--as "a cast that Dickens himself would have chosen". The first night audience, harboring ominous misgivings as to a twentieth century Pickwick, burst into relieved applause when the curtain rose on the excellent representation of the court of the White Hart Inn, and kept applauding as it saw Sam Weller, boots in hand, in amorous discourse with Betsy, the chambermaid. And Sam and Betsy proved to be no less accurately recreated than the other characters who form the genial frame...
Curls of steam and greasy smells rose, one morning last week, around a locomotive which waited in London, ready to whisk a trainload of tourists off to Southampton and the Cunarder Aquitania. Pensive, the engineer spat from his cab upon the platform. "D'ye twig wha's aboord?" he said to the fireman, "Mon, I wud sooner drive Mac any day than the King himsel...
...rose Mr. Stevens, showed why the West is Wild. When police arrived, Mr. Stevens was standing over the prostrate bodies of three citizens of Manhattan...