Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Lawyer Colombo strode toward the dais, waving his hands, declaring: "There must be some rule of fairness in this." Up jumped Examiner Lindsay, crying: "Now wait a minute, wait a minute." Yelled Lawyer Colombo: "Wait a minute yourself...
Moray then walked out, returned to speak again vaguely on the Matrimonial Causes Bill, then walked toward the Throne rolling a cigaret and made as if to strike a match...
...Times. Mrs. Patterson intends to make the Times her own mouthpiece, dress it in new format, give it her best writers, many of them women, and her pet features. She is no political ax-grinder, either for or against the New Deal, though personally she leans more toward the liberalism of her brother, Joe, than toward the Hearst policies. She is an old friend of Harold Ickes, entertains Joseph Kennedy and Harry Hopkins, recently had Mrs. Roosevelt splashing around in her swimming pool all afternoon...
Dudley: "There was a different feeling toward us. ... Not sporty good fellowship. . . . The referee attached to me stood so close to me he annoyed me. . . . It was patent the British wanted to win and win very badly...
Typical of Poet Millay's ingenuity is the history-in-miniature effect gained by having Father Anselmo go home early, leaving the conversation to circle through such topics as Romantic Love, the Supreme Court, the Past, toward ever more pointed conflict between Broker Merton and Communist Carl. Finally the latter says...