Word: sheaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sultry, grey sky, a wet mist falling. An elegant lady in white shoes and stockings, in a white flannel coat .and a white felt hat with a white straw brim, with white teeth shining in a broad smile, advanced through the crowd. One white arm held a sheaf of pink roses; the other white arm waved gaily. There in the yards of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Grace Goodhue Coolidge?for it was she?took a full-arm swing and smashed a bottle of sparkling mineral water on a stout steel hull, crying, "I christen thee Northampton...
Round Three. As the Latins refused to yield to his demands, the little lame Yorkshireman waxed in spleen, finally dived into a clinch. In arguing against Mr. Snowden a whole sheaf of figures had been cited by Finance Minister Henri Cheron, and the Frenchman punched home his point with a citation from the British Balfour Note...
...jolly, very careful man named Joseph McCoy. In his so's, Mr. McCoy is the Government's actuary, the Treasury's chief gazer info 'the fiscal future. How much will the U. S. collect next year in income taxes? Mr. McCoy scratches with a pencil, adds, subtracts, consults a sheaf of papers, brings forth an answer. How many cigarets will be smoked? How many men will die to leave large estates? How many shares of stock will change hands? On all these matters, from which the U. S. derives revenue, Mr. McCoy can produce answers. How he does...
Yellowmen emigrated from Japan to the U. S. too fast, are now excluded. Smart, the sons of Nippon are not making that mistake again in Brazil. A sheaf of figures just released at Rio de Janeiro shows that only 11,231 Japanese immigrated last year-and they were not little yellowfolk but big, brown, burly. The Imperial Japanese Government knows the reason-is the reason-why strapping Japanese exclusively are entering Brazil in a slow but sure procession. "It is considered," reads a suave semi-official bulletin from the Home Office at Tokyo, "that great injustice would be done...
...compressed plays-"their brevity flatters my inability to sustain a long flight, and the inertia that barely permits me to write at all. And finally when I became a teacher, here was the length that could be compassed after the lights of the House were out and the sheaf of absurd French exercises indignantly marked with red crayon...