Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absolutely agree with E. P. Holton. England should pay her debt to us by giving us some of her island possessions in the Western Hemisphere. I say some, because I have visited most of the islands mentioned, and I think one or two should be given back to the Devil...
...say of Ambassador Kennedy that he has "one sharp eye on the market and one fond eye on his children." He is peculiarly fitted to perform such a feat, as his picture on the cover shows that he is exotropic, i. e., when he looks straight ahead with either eye the other turns out. . . . Maybe this is why he is doing such a good job of observing what is happening on all sides...
...that is the reason"--this with an unusual amount of energy--"why I say there is no Harvard Man." The Vagabond whipped out the last two words with capitals, putting them in vocal italics. He was warming to his subject now, growing the warmer as the circle around him grew the larger. Pleased and flattered, he, the center of attention for once. These newcomers. He knew a few things which they did not. And they seemed willing to listen...
Sometimes the seasons move swiftly. Sometimes there comes an hour when men say "Yesterday it was winter. Today it is spring." Very like that was the change which came over U. S. business fortnight ago when war broke out: whole industries burst into flower, steel, machine tools (see p. 59), aircraft (see p. 63), etc. Many a smaller business feels the push of the season in the same way. Typical of many such were the new conditions last week faced by Marion Steam Shovel Co., No. 2 U. S. maker of shovels (No. 1: Bucyrus-Erie), 1938 net sales...
...Ethel Vance" is a pseudonym for someone whom the publishers say they have good reason not to name. The book might be the product of an impossible collaboration by Kay Boyle, Christopher Isherwood, Dorothy Sayers, Franz Kafka and Alfred Hitchcock. Its atmospheric detail and steadily elaborated suspense are better than most Hitchcock. Book-of-the-Month Clubbers, who get Escape for October, will not willingly lay it down...