Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Mr. Metcalfe had to say was almost as lurid as his appearance. The Bund, said he, was a fighting subversive force that had penetrated into U. S. navy yards and aircraft factories, was prepared to "muster a force" of 5,000 soldiers. Some of Witness Metcalfe's quotations...
...Bank of the United States which Andy Jackson and Henry Clay rowed about; Miles Brewton House (1765), where Lord Cornwallis once stayed during the Revolution. Razed was a row of ancient shells where legend places the public slave market-a matter of sore denial by Charleston historians, who say Charleston's slaves were sold in decent privacy. Unscathed save for their gardens were the mansions along South Battery, many now owned by Northerners. Storm-conscious Harry Hopkins found, when he arrived to direct Government aid, that the damage countable in dollars was about...
...Senator Edward R. Burke, Nebraska's loud non-New Deal Democrat, returned from a trip abroad with plenty to say. Sample: "In the things Hitler actually is doing to bring about the well-being of the entire German people, I think that he is greater than Bismarck. He already has done more than Bismarck did for the masses of people...
...telling. It begins as the story of a little boy who was punished, for stealing five pennies, by not being allowed to have mushrooms for dinner. The mushrooms were poisonous toadstools and his whole family of eleven died that night from eating them. "The disaster was beyond my years," says the narrator. "Grief for one at a time, yes. But eleven all at once-I hate to say it but I didn't know where to begin." If it failed to make him sad, the narrator continues, the incident at least enabled him to form an opinion of life...
...changing water into wine at Cana he fumed: "A perfectly shocking story: I simply do not believe it." Of the last chapter of John, with its story of the disciples fishing, and its "inept" last verse,† Hall Caine snorted: "Is there any good reason why I should not say, what I strongly feel, that this ... is an outrage on the memory of Jesus...