Word: sams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lord Balfour laid down the astute principle that Great Britain will not exact a penny more from her European debtors than is exacted from her by the U. S. These unctuous words have enabled Honest John Bull to pass the blame for collecting War debts on to Uncle Shylock Sam. Without the Balfour Note, both France and Italy to-day might well be on hostile instead of friendly terms with Britain. Therefore, almost everyone in the House of Commons was flabbergasted when Spleenful Snowden cried...
...unless he was "seeing without eyes." This particular instance was about the time, in 1889, or the early '90s, when he was employed as a stenographer by Spike & Arnold, in Yakima, Wash., and one of his former employers, Sidney W. Arnold, was mixed in an election row with Sam. Vinson, Col. J. G. Boyle and G. W. Wilson, and in which, six-shooters were freely displayed along Yakima Avenues...
...Provinces are either hostile or indifferent. A complicating issue is hydro-electric power. Canada fears that the U. S. will secure control of most of the St. Lawrence power sites, with no chance for Canada to increase its share to meet future needs. Said one Canadian newspaper: "What Uncle Sam has he holds. Our whole relationship with our big neighbor proves that truism." Radio. "Sheer presumption," declared Arthur 0. Smith, Canadian speaker to a Washington Rotary Club last week, was the U. S. Radio Commission's assignment of a mere handful of radio wavelengths to Canada. The prediction...
They rounded up at Berlin where Fran collected another lover, and this one she proposed to marry. Sam, bewildered, obligingly "deserted" to Paris where he found an honest harlot; to Italy where he found the improbable Edith. Edith thought she could be happy with him in Zenith, though "America terrifies me. I feel insecure there. I feel everybody watching me, and criticizing me unless I'm buzzing about Doing Something Important. And there's no privacy...
...Fran was not finished with him yet. Her Teutonic lover got bossy, his mother refused to have a divorcee for daughter-in-law. On the steamer, westward bound. Fran took Sam for granted. But when she blithely flirted with new whippersnappers Sam finally balked, rowed ingloriously, took the return steamer to Edith...