Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than ever like Mrs. Jacobs of Bay St. Louis. One of her sponsors, in helpful vein, asked if she felt like a butterfly on a pin. "Rather a weighty butterfly," smiled 200-lb. Margaret Flint Jacobs. With five of her six children at home and a husband whose toll-bridge had been rendered bankrupt by Huey Long's free bridges, Author Flint let it be known she was in Manhattan for business, not pleasure. "What am I going to do with the money? Well, with five children to educate that is easy to answer. I'm going...
Training his fire on world ills, Mr. Smith declared the depression was the result of God's stretching a chain across the toll road of life and claiming possession. People are then forced to stop and think, and they are dissatisfied with what money brings. "They that sow of the flesh shall reap of the flesh," was the evangelist's concluding volley...
...listening by radio as, all sordid bickering aside Secretary Clements lifted the Townsend Plan once more to its original lofty plane: "I see a man and woman both past three score and ten, sitting in a humble home out in the Far West. Depression has exacted its cruel toll from them after a life ot good citizenship and pioneering in the Their chief asset now and only compensation is that they have contributed to their country four children raised to manhood and womanhood. Thank God it is my privilege to save those two-my own Mother and Father, and devote...
...Bible. Perhaps in no other literature is the worship of the personified powers of nature so beautifully expressed and faithfully followed. The sun, the mon are as dancing girls, only less fickle of heart. Ushas (the dawn) holds the key to the treasures of light and levies the toll of age. Among the prayers of the magic Soma plant worship the following is perhaps the best known...
...smashed an automobile flat as a cockroach. Shattered gas mains spread a sickening stench. Firemen, menaced by loops of live wires, were afraid to cut into the shambles with acetylene torches because of fumes. The last of the dead was not removed until four days after the blast. Toll: eleven killed, 45 injured...