Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...praise befits him ill. He was a true German. In his person he epitomized unflinching might. He was no weak "sportsman. You English and American only call him one in order that as the "nations of sportsmen" you may seem to imply that he was one of you and share his glory...
...Boston, starting at scratch with Paul Revere one spring night in 1775, William Dawes did his share in awakening the countryside to the news that the British were coming-although Revere got most of the credit. Out of Lincoln, Neb., starting at scratch with Charles W. Bryan, one of William Dawes' descendants set out on a long ride into U. S. politics. It is not yet determined which of them will get the more credit, although it appears that Dawes-Charles Gates Dawes it is this time-appears to have made greater headway in arousing the countryside...
...apparitions that came to Karl as he waited at the cross-roads "over both of which corpses have been borne to the burial-ground", but the retribution was Karl's secret, not ours. Mr. Barnett writes with a hint of magic. With Mr. Dumaux he should share honors...
...action on the part of the company stirred up a hornet's nest around Governess Ferguson and her husband "Jim." It was understood that Jim had picked the members of the Highway Commission, and he was known to have attended their meetings. So it was felt he should share the blame with them. Last week, with talk of impeachment in the air, two of the three Highway Commissioners resigned. So they cannot be impeached; neither can the Governess' husband, because he holds no office. The only persons left to impeach were the remaining Highway Commissioner and the Governess...
...walls of a bathroom; to a man who truly loves his work even the angry, mosquito-like whine of an alarm-clock in the raw dusk of a winter morning may be welcome. But partisans of these noises generally realize that friends might be seriously offended if forced to share their taste, particularly if the friends desired at the moment only to sleep. Using such instances as parallels, certain tenants of apartment houses on Park Avenue, Manhattan, last week maligned John Davison Rockefeller Jr., calling him "selfish," "inconsiderate" and worse...