Word: sproutings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps I am out of date and in the past 50 years the Eton jacket has sprouted a tail. The latter seems improbable. Things do not sprout so quickly as this in England...
With these words the Administration last week offered veterans a new bonus of a round half-billion dollars provided they would desist, at least for a time, from hounding the Government for cash. The offer appeared to sprout out of a White House heart-to-heart between President Roosevelt and Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi early in the week...
...ought to sprout wings," piped a friend...
...occur when Sir Percy, puttering in London, chuckles at Romney's portrait of his wife, sneers at the cut of the Prince Regent's newest coat sleeves, describes his necktie as his stock-in-trade. A brisk light-hearted and enormously romantic tableau, The Scarlet Pimpernel should sprout immediately on lists of worthy cinemas compiled out of respect for decency or for plain good taste. Good shot: Sir Percy ingratiating himself with a sentry at the gates of Paris by showing him a switch made of dead patricians' pigtails...
Last week the smile on the face of Mr. Quo would not come off. He rejoiced that the U. S. and Britain had decided not to give wings to the tiger. That the tiger was proposing to sprout wings anyhow seemed to Mr. Quo a fact which he could accept with poetic stoicism. No one else in the world received with more perfect aplomb the dread, though long expected announcement of Japan's Privy Council last week that the Imperial Government denounces the Washington Naval Treaty, thus causing it to expire...