Word: scrape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choose a lovely brown, come fidler, scrape thy crowd...
...long days at his books, expands his lungs, and plunges into the indescribale subway entrance. There, his stick and gloves, his shining topper, are the center of a half-awed admiration. He enters the car like a fairy prince swirling away in his coach; even the guards bow and scrape like tousled sycophants...
...encouragement. When the fish were well cooked and the government overturned, Patrick was hit on the head in a riot and found he remembered Marie very well. But before they had time for a happy ending, Patrick's old Etonian spirit got him into a last and fatal scrape...
Your footnote, "When Siamese King Prajadhipok journeyed to the U. S. to have a cataract scraped from his eyes. . . ." (TIME, March 6) makes it apparent that you share with many others the erroneous idea that a cataract is a "growth over the eye," and that the way to remove it is to "scrape...
...purely Scottish blood, Bruce Lockhart eschewed English universities, finished his education in France and Germany, then went to Malaya as a rubber planter. There he achieved sufficient fame as a footballer, too much notoriety when he took native royalty for a mistress. Timely malaria got him out of that scrape, sent him home to his outraged family. For lack of something better to do he took the examinations for the Foreign Office and passed at the head of the list, much to his surprise. In 1912 he was sent to Moscow as British vice-consul. He liked...