Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero Honjo, indicating his delight by sucking air through his teeth, wrote autographs as fast as he could scribble, grinned, bobbed, bowed at each "Oh, thank you so much, General!" Next morning at least 100,000 citizens of Tokyo massed round the railway station at 7 a. m. when Conqueror Honjo's special train chuffed in. On the platform stood princes of the Royal House, six Cabinet Ministers and the Imperial Chamberlain who solemnly stepped forward to bestow on General Honjo the divine welcome of the "Son of Heaven," Emperor Hirohito...
...want you to move all the furniture. Bring that bed here. Move that bureau over there. And then you might scrub the ceiling." Sweating and grunting the spy obeyed until it was time for Mrs. McCoy to dress for dinner. "You can go now," she sweetly told him. "Thank you so much, Captain Kitakawa...
...party alive through four lean years, has been unceremoniously exiled. Regardless of Mayor Walker's fate, Tammany can expect nothing from a President Roosevelt. Good Democrats like Bernard Mannes Baruch have been ignored. They feel that the presidential nominee has taken from them without so much as a "thank you" the high-powered political machine which they formed, fixed and financed. He, they think, is a wobbly and uncertain character who badly needs "running." Their one hope is that he will wobble away from his new allies...
...appreciate very much the message which the representatives. . . have sent me on the termination of the Ottawa conference. The Queen and I thank them all. . . . Your work has been arduous and intricate, but I rejoice to think that your achievement has justified the high expectations with which the conference began...
...Drys should thank you for saying "crafty," acknowledging a mental process too subtle for your analysis. Every Dry will hope TIME'S clever penmen may live long enough to master the method and secret of Mrs. Boole. That craft has been good journalistic policy and may be again. Your attitude toward Mrs. Boole's policies and projects will always give her an advantage over you; for she is not working for her own profit or advantage...