Word: straightway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only happy sounds; the voice of the brook or the off-key whistle of a farm boy. It is that indefinable time of day or night which poets and song writers have tried to limit by a phrase without success. They call it gloaming, or twilight, or dusk and straightway destroy the illusion. It is none of these, but only ten minutes past sunset in New Hampshire and it must be heard and seen and felt, not rhymed and written...
...some short while this sort of thing went on. A man who had sat long in a cafe would suddenly spring up upon his chair and shout out, "Vive L'Empire," it didn't matter much which, and straightway thirty more would leap up on their chairs, some laughing, some weeping in an excess of patriotic zoal all shouting in fury. Soldiers walked about in gorgeous, gilt buttoned uniforms kicking children into the gutters. Women rode in the Bois in tight waists and hats which the world was unfortunately destined to remember three quarters of a century later. Ambassadors clicked...
...full & undisputed right to Author Stevenson's birthday (Nov. 13). Reason: In 1891 her father, General Henry C. Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his friend Stevenson that small Daughter Annie always felt grieved because she had no real birthday: hers fell on Dec. 25. Straightway kind Author Stevenson drew up, signed and had witnessed a deed: ". . . In consideration that Miss Annie L. Ide . . . was born out of all reason on Christmas Day . . . that I ... have attained the age when 0, we never mention it, and that I have now no further use for a birthday...
Their danders up, some of Manhattan's biggest bankers let newshawks know that Depositor France could withdraw her gold and welcome (i. e. and be damned). Straightway two things significantly did not happen : the Bank of France and other European interests with large balances in Wall Street not only made no large withdrawals but drew less U. S. gold by earmark and shipment last week than for any similar period during the month ; secondly, Manhattan banks did not up their interest rate but continued to pay only 1½% to the Bank of France which continued to take...
Among the Cannon accounts money was switched back & forth, apparently, according to Investigator Manly, for no other reason than to jumble the identity of contributions and block investigation. The Bishop would make a political deposit and straightway transfer it to his personal account. Of the Jameson contribution only $22,544 could be definitely traced through the Cannon accounts to the Anti-Smith Democrats of Virginia. "Unaccounted for" was $17,895 in a Washington political account. The Bishop as executor opened a special account for the estate of a woman long dead and then used it as a political depository. Another...