Word: thank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fourth: Dr. Wylie and Dr. Bowlby did rot call, the following day, to see the President, but went to the White House to see the President's Secretary, Mr. Akerson, to thank him for having arranged the meeting with the President...
...that, if we tell a pretty girl that she has beautiful eyes, the Dutch would call them: "Mooie kijkers." To make the word seem still more useful, the Dutch also have kijkcr mean opera-glass or telescope and, if the Dutch had speakeasies (which they haven't and thank goodness have no need of) the peephole in the entrance door would be called, like Mr. Rockefeller's retreat, a ''kijkuit." EMILE W. VOUTE...
...were Rev. David G. Wylie, Lord's Day Alliance president, and Rev. Harry Laity Bowlby, its secretary. Ranged around President Hoover, they made six small speeches each asking the President's support for a Sunday closing law for Washington, where baseball, cinema, sports, now enliven the Sabbath. "Thank you for calling," said the President as the delegation marched out again. In the lobby a newsgatherer asked Mr. Bowlby about the "blue law." He replied: "Not blue, but red-white-and-blue. . . ." Chagrined that the President had not committed himself, Messrs. Wylie and Bowlby returned to the White House...
...this town not long ago of a woman whose telephone rang at three o'clock in the morning. She fell down stairs and broke her leg. Another member of the family answered the telephone and was informed that the party had the wrong number. This woman did not thank the telephone operator...
...thank you for reminding me of my mother," said he. "That courageous woman would not have her son take such an unworthy step. I will not sign...