Word: verandas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognizing, beneath the grime, a former class-mate of theirs. It is from the remainder that the beachcombers must be drawn. One can only wish that they had the courage to furnish their occupation to the class committee; so that their friends might look them up, on the veranda of some sinister hotel in the tropics and save them the embarrassment of asking for the drink...
...true love goes to war and is reported dead. Desolate and a bit selfish, she marries with half a heart. Then the grave?which was a living one, a prison camp?gives up its dead. She finds it in her to leave husband and child, to conclude, on a veranda in Fiesole, that she was wise to relight her candle after fate had snuffed it. The story is straightforwardly written out, with honest British cliches of word, action and philosophy. It is another young woman's (Miss Thompson is 24) post-bellum retort. It will please many, but to this...
...concisely and tersely, without confusing comments. But, speaking in the language of the man who stood looking at a giraffe: 'Thur ain't no sich animal.' " "Pardon me," said the efficient young clerk, "but there is?here it is," and he handed me TIME. I returned to the cottage veranda and although Bishop Brent was valiantly extolling the League of Na- tions in the nearby Amphitheatre, I read that copy of TIME from the upper left hand corner to the lower right hand one (there were no advertisements then**). After which, I "took my pen in hand" and sent...
...libidinousness. Unidentified! The Tribune obviously wished to suggest that the gentleman had crawled up behind the golfers with the idea of rising to his feet just as the camera snapped. If a gentleman known in innumerable homes for his geniality, probity and tact, is not protected on the veranda of his own club from the slurs of the Tribune, who can deem himself safe...
...Davis home, 5,000 people gathered. Mr. Davis advanced to the veranda, tears in his eyes. "In the presence of this welcome, in sight of these familiar faces, my heart goes...