Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years Speaker of the House, last week made it plain to reporters that he had not even considered twice what to do on his 90th birthday (May 7). His one thought has been, "Supper for three, a black cigar, the Danville (Ill.) Commercial Times, and a poker game till...
Showing the effect on the lacrosse team about fighting till the last light wine is passed.--New York World, April...
...eagles in cages, chained raccoons, doleful bobcats leashed to posts on the lawns of Western hotels; for dancing bears, monkeys leashed to street organs; for imprisoned hawks, falcons, caracals and creatures robbed of their swiftness; for leopards padding up and down in cages and lions whose pale eyes blaze till death with longing for the forests they have left behind forever-many persons feel pity, but few utter their pity. John Galsworthy, now visiting the U.S., has pitied many social animals. Last week he enunciated (from a Manhattan radio station) his views on the caging of wild ones...
...three ragged fives, was three holes down. There, without dramatics, the match ended. Mitchell had won the Roehampton Club's prize of 200 pounds with an ease that made Britishers beam happily above their pipe-bowls in the bar that evening and lend their tongues to prophesy: "Wait till he meets the American. . . . Wait till he meets that Hagen chap...
...jump upon the victim and toss her unconscious into an automobile, and lock her up later in a room, or one can open a cafe and enliven it with music and attract young women there as a miller is drawn toward the light, then fill their veins with wine, till their head is light and their senses are disturbed, their consciences numbed, and the natural barriers of protection laid low when all too easily they have become victims of man's lustfulness. But they are in reality victims of Man's cupidity and the price he has placed on their...