Word: catching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...column Nancy acknowledged the contribution, but added: "We cannot build the tower-it is too great an enterprise. What should I do with the dollar?" For answer, in her next day's mail she got more money. A contributor calling himself "Sunset Hunter" suggested penny banks to catch odd coins for the tower. Readers began to drop their pennies, nickels, dimes into old pitchers and broken cups to save them for Nancy...
...three stodgy weeks that body had shifted uneasily about in the un accustomed formal garments of full-dress debate. But last week the Senate, almost to a man, happily shucked its tight collar, stripped off the white gloves. The nodding press gallery awoke, and in five days of catch-as-catch-can heckling the Senate finished its task, passed the Pittman Bill after 26 days and 1,000,000 words of the Great Debate...
...British ships could catch Deutschland on a short run (31-33 knots against 26 knots) but not in a chase the length of the Atlantic, where the Germans' fuel endurance at economical speeds would be superior and the British would have to stop and tank up. Only two other Allied ships which could take on the German raiders are the French Dunkerque and Strasbourg (30 knots), based at Brest...
...month ago Tommy began to enlarge his arranging staff, adding Sy Oliver and one other, making four full-time men working for him, the largest staff in the country. But the catch is that Sy Oliver formerly played trumpet for Jimmy Luncefor, and is an arranger in the best Kanas City powerhouse style. More than this, Oliver specializes in a very different Casa Loma type of technical arrangement that demands a well-kuit band...
...Each has its own color and insignia, its Master of Beagles (M.B.) and its whips (whippers-in who are permitted to wear green coats in the field). Some packs are privately owned, like Mrs. William du Pont Jr.'s Foxcatcher Beagles (a misnomer,* because a beagle could never catch a fox). Others are subscription packs, like the Treweryn Beagles of Berwyn, Pa. and the Buckram Beagles of Brookville, Long Island, which anyone with sturdy legs and a presentable papa may join...