Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worry about that, young fellow! We all get bad breaks. My colors will still be flying when this thing is over." Bookie and Master shook hands...
...Sinclair's "thing" was a go-day sentence for "contemptuous" refusal to answer questions the U. S. Senate asked him about the oil scandals. Drummed into confinement by gloating editorials throughout the land, he had spent his first night on cot 62 in the prison dormitory. Clad in silk pajamas he had sat most of the night on the edge of cot 62, smoking cigarets. The snores of 60 roommates kept him awake...
...First Law. In reality anything might happen if a bearded Bolshevik, a lovely Britisher and her fragile blue-blooded fiance were snowbound for several weeks in a one-room cabin on the Siberian steppes. But in the theatre only one thing would be likely to happen-after both men had been seized with an overwhelming urge for the maiden, one of them would prove a cad, the other would enjoy the cabin as a quasi-nuptial chamber. All this is true of The First Law. Since it was written by Dmitry Schlegov, a Soviet Russian, the British fiance...
...resourceful carrier explained that he was called on to do this sort of thing pretty often and knew just what was needed. Filled with a renewed scorn for the intelligence of "fool tourists", he clattered on his way, while the Vagabond said good-by to the trout widow and likewise resumed his, resolved to buy at least a dozen tickets the next time the solicitor for the postman's ball comes around...
...stand at the window and I see automobiles and the wheels turning and smoke coming out of chimneys and people walking around, and I can't believe it. Think of seeing my son. Do you know, the nurses had to tell me what things were. I would ask: 'What is the long, pointed thing out there?' and the nurse would say, 'That's a church steeple.' I've been going to church all my life and didn't know a church steeple...