Word: sending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That's a nice picture of civilization, Christian nations using one part of their money to send missionaries to the Chinese and another part of their money to stimulate the deadly opium traffic, that the heathen may be able to purchase weapons to kill each other...
Eagerly she continued: "The lack of actors who can play parts of gentlemen has crippled scores of plays. It is a deplorable fact that managers frequently have to send to England for men who can merely wear clothes and appear like gentlemen. Theatres are simply falling over themselves to get contracts for the two or three men in New York who can take these parts, and yet college men totally overlook the stage as a road to wealth and fame. I imagine they do so because it 'isn't done', but it is done in England and there...
...arrested for disorder, sabotage, petitioned for release. They refused to eat; officials heeded not. Thereupon Prisoner Pierre Michel, procuring a knife, cut off his toe, laid the bleeding member on the desk of the examining magistrate, declared that, unless released, each of his mates would cut off a toe, send it to the Magistrate. Said the Magistrate: "Bandage him. Lead him to his cell...
...Wanamaker is not bringing his men to Boston until 4 o'clock this afternoon. The Yale squad will keep away from the Arena until time to don skates for the contest. The realization that the team is capable of extending the Harvard sextet to the limit is certain to send another capacity crowd to the Arena at 8.15, the hour that the contest is scheduled to begin...
...examples that college graduates do not furnish nine out of every ten leaders in society, it is not to be inferred that this excellent journal has gone over to the opposition. It is safe to hazard the guess that if the New York Times had a son, it would send him to college. What the Times does assert is that Mr. Albert E. Wiggam has played with his figures and got the answer he wanted, but, like Goldberg's famous Bughouse Fables, they don't mean anything...