Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christian, he was held in affectionate esteem by thousands of Chinese. Of him Dr. Keigwin, pastor of the Manhattan congregation which maintained Dr. Williams in China, said, on learning of his death, "Jack Williams was one of the best friends China ever had.... If he could speak he would say he accounted it a privilege to go to the Cross as Christ went...
...thrifty with her clothes budget, especially during her prettiest years. . . . Every girl I know who made a good marriage this year was the type who spends thought, cash and attention on clothes. The investments they made on gowns brought them more in money and material comfort-to say nothing of happiness-than the thrifty basement bargain-hunter could hope to lay aside in her whole life...
...really heard the Dark Gentleman's lyric blandishments. Author Stern, social chronicler, (The Matriarch, A Deputy Was King, Thunderstorm), now deserves a niche no whit below Christopher Morley's (Where the Blue Begins), from dog-lovers. If he could read it, Toes would ejaculate: "Great Spratt! I say, you chaps, that is a book! My copy is all dog-eared." It would impress Kim, too, but being reticent and profane, he would doubtless growl: "My Dog, cut your row, Toes. Every Legs, you know...
...patriarch of the settlement. Such story as there is culminates in the tribulation visited upon him by a God in whom he took small stock. Gangrene eats away the feet upon which he so confidently stood all his life. His toes drop right off in a basin. Some say it was the conjure wrought by one of his many women when she laid his wife's death sheet over his bed. Some say it was his curse for biting a hole in a preacher's cheek. Most likely it was the poison with which he defied...
...comes to college. A knowledge of it leads to, or aids in, certain large popular callings in after-life, and offers an agreeable and stimulating side occupation for everybody. Some, either avowedly or secretly, choose the field because they think it is easy. To them all one can say is that college courses in English are not as easy as they look, and that standards and requirements are stiffened in proportion as a subject is easy. Without dilating farther on such topics at this point, the best way of introducing the subject of English as a field of concentration...