Word: sends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under those circumstances, what would you expect the President, as the lead er and spokesman of his party to do? ... He is merely saying ... 'If you be lieve in the Administration, do not send these men back.' ... I know the President. . . . Adulation has not made him arrogant, defeat has not made him timid. What we have to decide is whether ... we want to abdicate the stronghold of Democracy or to fight for it. And I think we, too, have 'only just begun to fight...
...installments. Mr. Crawley decided to put the world's knowledge between paper covers and sell it by mail order, saving busy students the trouble of going to a bookstand. He spent three years lining up bigwig educators to write the lessons for him. Then he was ready to send out a weekly periodical called The Popular Educator, each issue containing about 30 lessons in as many subjects, at 25? a copy. A subscriber starts with issue No. 1, gets a complete education in 52 issues. Some subjects, such as history, have a serial chapter in every issue, others, such...
...strait-laced Midwest banker, likable, 20-year-old Jerry Kennedy went to Manhattan in 1904, fell in love with a beautiful music student named Connie, married her in spite of his family's bigoted objection to her Catholicism. Then he lost his job and his father refused to send any money...
President Raymond H. Combs of Churchville, N. Y., who looks like a slim but prosperous banker, made an even moi professional speech. Said he: "We're the only ones in the organization that provide complete postal service. They count on us for . . . their stamps . . . give us their packages . . . send money orders through us." In fact, he said, the smiling servants of the R. F. D. ought to be called, not "letter carriers" but "post offices on wheels...
...America for blood to run cold"-meaning lynchings, gangsters, etc. As between good and bad Englishness, Author Halsey calls it about a draw. "Living in England," she concludes, "must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife. Whenever you have definitely made up your mind to send her to a home for morons, she turns her heart-stopping profile and you are unstrung and victimized again...