Word: seene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice with interest the statement in TIME, that the author of the "Jones Law," or the ''Five & Ten," "had seen only one drunken man in his life" (TIME, April 1). If the Senator made such statement, I would like to recall to his mind, when he must have seen them as many as three at a time, 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...
...main social stage. That is why Washington is full of side shows. The form of the main performance is reproduced faithfully on a small, stuffy scale in the lobbies and "parlors" of the inexpensive hotels near Washington's Union Station. Seldom are these second-rate social troopers seen in Northwest Washington after 6 p. m. When a second-rate Congressman does scale the heights, he usually does something gauche-like the Senator who had himself flash-lighted as he entered Secretary Mellon's home to dine...
...chesty Yankees. Backed by the chewing-gum millions of William Wrigley Jr., Manager Joe McCarthy has built up a formidable combination. Said Bucky Harris after the Chicago Cubs had beaten his Detroit Tigers five straight games in spring training: "It is the greatest team I have ever seen on a baseball field." Harris has seen the Yankees. He has seen them at their best...
...United Press is an American press association, but it is by no means an American propaganda agency any more than it is a French or British propaganda agency. The old-fashioned form of a government subsidized 'official' agency has seen...
...drowned them was deeper. How may I rest against her heart which beats so gently, when the heart of the world is troubled, when its breast may be beaten again by the iron of the guns of the lightless people? I am weary, but how can I rest having seen the Light...