Word: sheetings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President Roosevelt occupied his spare time last November was made last week by his Assistant Secretary Stephen Early. The late William Forbes Morgan, Mrs. Roosevelt's uncle by marriage and treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, brought around to the White House a large box full of sheets of paper. Whenever the President had nothing else to do. he spent his time signing his name on sheet after sheet. By the time he was ready to sail for South America Nov. 17, the whole boxful was used...
...search of stimulation from the bright-colored posters and handbooks. After rummaging through the pamphlets on the main counter, during which period of ecstasy an impudent clerk glanced down with a sneer, doubting without speaking the Vagabond's ability to travel anywhere, his hands picked up a pink sheet. O, Harvard what a sight for sore eyes! Shore Excursion of the S. S. Tameriane To Boston and Harvard, Monday. August 2nd By Arrangement with the Weyman Ritcomb...
...readers' convenience the massive sheet had been printed in two sections, the first reaching subscribers last April, the second, last week. Explained lively Publisher Carl L. Estes: "The second annual East Texas edition of last year . . . received much praise and only one complaint: that it was 'too big.' One subscriber, who had spent years training his dog to bring in the paper from the front porch, irrevocably canceled his subscription, saying that in a vain attempt to make good on the enormous issue the dog had torn it to ribbons and then died of a broken heart...
...Manhattan Bond Club parody of the marmoreal Wall Street Journal, tried hard last week to keep its cracks aimed below Canal Street. But its 14,000 Wall Street-wise chuckled most over an advertisement which read: "DEAL WITH US: No Restrictions, No Holds Barred, No Legal Opinions, No Balance Sheet, No Income Account: U. S. GOV'T BOND DEPARTMENT...
...London. Conn.. Nobel Prizeman Sinclair Lewis revealed: "When I don't like what I've started to write I unroll the entire sheet and put in a fresh one. I don't think it's a good practice to tear a partly written sheet out of a typewriter...