Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought I had made about $450,000 and that I would be pretty well fixed for the rest of my life. But the collapse came. The property I had sold at high prices had to be taken back, and I've paid taxes on it now for ten to twelve years. I became insolvent. I had to borrow money and to make notes which I have struggled to reduce, and which I did reduce and which some day I'll pay." Announcing that he would contest Senator Harrison's renomination in the August primaries "from hell...
Figuring that Green will be set to go, a forecast of the points gives Harvard somewhat near 55 points. This is probably more than they are set to get on paper, but in every meet they've run this year, the Harvard team has piled up more points than they were being picked for. The time has come to stand firm, and say Harvard will win easily. No more straddling...
...said something personal, and we mixed it. You have all the trouble with the women. Isn't it funny how big women like me are always getting tangled up with little bitty men? One of my husbands was a jockey only 5 ft. tall. I've married army flyers and jockeys so far. I'm a good-time girl. Clothes, music, lights, dancing and liquor-what else is there when a girl is young...
...alienist for the defense of Madcap Harry K. Thaw in 1907 when "brain storm" was first offered as a valid excuse for murder. Commented Psychoanalyst Jelliffe: "Dr. Sachs was talking ex cathedra. It's just a new attempt to spread the old gossip and scandal we've been fighting for 40 or 50 years. They don't like to see us get any fees...
...derives chiefly from the sight of Jean Arthur smashing a plaster skull and a large vase over William Powell's head, from a morgue scene in which Actor Powell lifts the dead jockey's arm into view, asks his assistant to give him a hand. "You've already got one," says the assistant...