Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boyles sign a batch of extradition papers...
...times that under such conditions I have felt the need for spiritual wisdom. If there ever was a case where I could say this, this was one.") When the civil-service wrecker landed on the Governor's desk he said: "I have faith the right answer [whether to sign] will be made clear to me, perhaps this weekend." Mr. Dickinson and Mentor Boyles passed the weekend together. The bill was signed...
With a good eye for detail, Mr. Gunther remembers a Tokyo night-club sign in English: WINE WOMEN SONG AND WHATNOT. Illustrating Japanese lack of tact: Geisha girls, entertaining a U. S. naval officer who had been on the U. S. S. Panay when it was bombed and sunk by the Japanese, kept repeating all evening: "Panay! Panay! So sorry! So sorry!" Typical Japanese Army reasoning: Capitalism is responsible for communism, hence to defeat communism capitalism must be overthrown. Author Gunther also picked up a warning that the Japanese are capable of committing hara-kiri on a national as well...
...stopped before permanent teeth appear, no faces are spoiled. Parents who try to break nursing babies of the habit only get them riled, which may have serious psychological effects. Thumb-sucking in school children is a different matter, said Dr. Langford, and is usually a danger sign: fatigue, illness or frustration...
Joachie Hubert, an unemployed Manhattan waiter, believes that a child who steals should be ruthlessly punished. When his 12-year-old son, Joachie Jr., stole $3 from his mother's purse, Joachie Hubert hung a sandwich sign over his son's shoulders, marched with him to school. The sign said: I AM A THIEF. I STOLE MY MOTHER'S MONEY...