Word: sheaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First, there were 30 pages of the manuscript of the Life. These had not been closed in the ebony trunk, but had, since the death of Boswell, reposed in a Scottish garret where the air was as damp as oatmeal. When Lord Talbot stooped to gather this sheaf of merry memories, the bundle had crumbled in his hand into a little flutter of yellowish flakes. Only 30 pages could be gathered again. These, a gay jumble of antique anecdotes, had been joined and backed with gauze so that they might last perhaps forever. The manuscript of An Account of Corsica...
...under the Trade Agreement of 1921, during the Lloyd George Ministry. For perhaps an hour the Premier built up his thesis that the Russian Trade Delegation and also the Soviet Embassy have functioned as directing agencies for Communist propaganda, subversion and espionage. The evidence supporting this thesis was a sheaf of telegrams and letters which were stated rather than proved to have passed between the Soviet Trade Delegation and the Soviet Government. Because Mr. Baldwin is a good, sturdy Britisher, his statements carried weight, and were very generally accepted by the British public as proof that Great Britain...
There remained a further source of information. Washington correspondents, attending one of the bi-weekly White House conferences, submitted their usual sheaf of written questions, most of them devoted to the O'Shea statement. Going through the bundle of queries, the successor to the White House Spokesman* answered one concerning the appointment of certain judges, one concerning the progress of flood relief, one concerning a treaty with Panama which settled the matter of competition between Panama merchants and U. S. Government stores in the Canal strip. He then bade the correspondents farewell...
...pack-peddler. The original soap Babbitt peddled razor strops. Benedict Arnold took woolens into Canada. Cherry rum, gingerbread and candy were the stock in trade of Phineas T. Barnum before, aged 25, he bought "161-year-old" Joyce Heth, "George Washington's nurse," and turned showman. Purloining a sheaf of his father's sermons, the notorious Stephen Burroughs tramped to one empty pulpit after another...
...sheaf of secret notes written between President Plutarco Calles of Mexico and U. S. Senator William E. Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was made public last week by the Senator amid hubbub...