Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides jack-knives, the White House had an abundance of turkeys (nine of them), ducks, partridges (many a brace), Michigan potatoes (one sack), giant beets (one bushel), South Dakota honey (ten pounds). From Louis Liggett, Bostonian friend of the President, came the millionth rifle manufactured by the Winchester Arms Corp...
Balance of Power. Angina pectoris (heart disease), from which he had long suffered (last year he had an attack in the Capitol barbershop), carried off Senator Andrieus Aristieus Jones, New Mexico Democrat. The Senate expressed profound regret in a resolution. Vice President Dawes detailed ten Senators to attend the funeral in Las Vegas...
...earthy tunes that inspired them but for the most part they are well adapted. Any complaints will come from the specialist in ditties and native folk music. They will mourn omissions, but the minstrel's own apologia must answer them: "I should like to have taken ten, twenty, thirty years more in the preparation of this volume...
...night with him. Nonetheless, he asked her for the sum he needed so badly; she came to his rooms for dinner without saying whether she would leave the money or not. In the morning, she gave the Lieutenant a thousand gulden. She said: ". . . 'You gave me only ten. Do you still remember? . . . Ten gulden- was plenty. In fact, too much.' Her eyes held his. 'To speak accurately, it was precisely ten gulden too much!'" Three hours later, Bogner, still impecunious, and Rasda's uncle, whose wife had sent with him eleven thousand gulden...
Author Schnitzler began to write poetry, "and such bad poetry," when he was ten years old. At 40 he gave up practicing medicine to write. A native of Hungary, he has written the light moods of Vienna into many a book; many a book that he has never written now lies in the prolific incubation of notebooks from which they hatch, briefly and pungently, like bright little birds. Author Schnitzler has never visited the U. S. He fears that the fuss and fume of literary idolaters would overwhelm...