Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after those two days we found we liked her better than most of the girls we knew. Maybe it was because we knew here better, and had seen her react to danger, to beauty, had seen the mother instinct come out in her in a subdued sort of way. Maybe it was because she liked the things we like; animals and green fields and wishing wells. And she had nice friends, simple people, a relief from the kind nice follow you see around the Yard. She was "different," and we liked her, and we'll be on hand to welcome...
...associations with bargain basements. A sour wisp of a woman, ugly and thirty, about whose person the shadow of an old maid already hangs, trying desperately to make last year's finery do. In all of them, exaggerated copies of the true styles, or else utter disregard for any sort of style. Except one amazingly patrician and good looking girl who looks out of place. But there is a sincerity and eagerness in their movements. In a twinkling, they patter up the steps and are embraced by the great carved doors which close behind them so quickly that...
...exhibited in almost a decade appeared last year in the fight over Franklin Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. Smartness in this crisis, however, since it consisted merely of lying low and letting conservative and progressive Democrats battle it out, was of too negative a sort to be very encouraging. Not until this year have signs of genuine Republican resurgence made it of real interest to re-examine the party to see what it is in 1938, what it may become...
...House majority. In that case little Joe Martin, who talks with a down-East accent, lives in an unpretentious bachelor apartment at the Hay-Adams House, would presumably become Republican Floor Leader to succeed Bert Snell who would move up to the Speakership. No one expects anything of this sort to happen this year. But how close Joe Martin can come to making it happen is, despite all the palaver of its more famed idealists, the G.O. P.'s main preoccupation for the present...
...with a series of heavy crashes, one following another as the Sutherland crossed her enemy's stern and each section of guns bore in turn, she fired her broadside into her . . . with every shot tearing its destructive course from end to end of the ship. .. . . That was the sort of broadside which won battles. That single discharge had probably knocked half the fight out of the Frenchmen, killing and wounding a hundred men or more, dismounting half a dozen guns." With little philosophizing about war and man's fate, Author Forester, competent and unpretentious, hurries his story along...