Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...various one night stands along the road, the company has indeed been brave. He who would undertake to present W. B. Yeats and W. S. Gilbert to rural audiences whose previous experience of the drama has probably been acquired from "East Lynne" and the Number Three Company of "Uncle Tom's Oabin" is obviously a man of mettle. If Mr. Bushnell Cheney, who is playing the general part of Moses to the troupe, had not already demonstrated the practicability of his idea in a former tour, he might almost be considered one of those who have no quaims about rushing...
House of Commons. The Government was again saved from defeat by the Liberals. A motion to reduce Minister of Labor Tom Shaw's salary by $435, because the Government had failed to produce a constructive plan to deal with unemployment, was defeated by 244 to 210 votes. Fifteen Liberals and one Independent voted with the Conservatives. Tom had little intelligible to say. The most biting criticism came from a Liberal ex-Minister of Labor, Dr. Macnamara, who pointed out that the Labor Party had declared that it had all its plans ready three years ago. Continued he: "The fiery...
...From Los Angeles, for the Hearst press, I wrote: 'The story sent out of this town to the effect that I am approaching the border line of physical wreckage is apple sauce-nothing but apple sauce, boys. . . . If any of the challenging kids-Harry Wills, Luis Firpo or Tom Gibbons-have an idea that I am not in shape to knock them dizzy, they are hereby invited to jump out to Los Angeles . . . I need sparring partners...
John Corbin: "If one thought of Uncle Tom, one thought also of Othello...
...Tom Henderson, son of the Home Secretary, asked Parliamentary Secretary of the Admiralty Ammon to order British Jack Tars (gobs) to wear shoes. "I don't like to see seamen walking on deck in their bare feet. They get corns and are liable to other dangers from severe colds...