Word: swallowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every Texas "gob" knew, however, President Coolidge was "going to hold a reception aboard of us. We'll be loaded to the gigs with swallow tails...
...swallow does not make a summer. One plane does not make an airforce. Nevertheless, the approval of the U. S. State Department, given last week, to the purchase by Mexico of a Ford-Stout all-metal monoplane like the one in which Mrs. Lindbergh, Engineer William B. Stout & Mrs. Stout & friends flew from Detroit to Mexico City, was welcomed in Mexico and discussed in Washington as the harbinger of a general lifting by the State Department of the embargo on U. S. planes sold to Mexico. In approving purchase of the single plane, which the Mexican government said it wanted...
...people keep on asking her new conduct-questions. Recent examples: "Do you think it would be attractive to have the groom sing a solo at his wedding . . . and do I stay with the groom after the wedding most of the time?" Another: "How do you teach children not to swallow fish bones?" Another: "How can I develop sufficient ingenuity to be a cook-waitress and at the same time a cool, tranquil and charming hostess? . . . when I get up from the table to change plates or bring in a dish from the kitchen every man at the table jumps...
Since both lectures and the tutorial system are to form the bases of Harvard's educational plan, the question arises as to the proportionate contribution of each. It has been made clear that the tutorial work will never completely swallow that accomplished by lectures; then, what establishes the line of demarcation? Is the lecture side to dominate and the tutorial to assist, or, will the opposite hold true? Or is it possible to have an equal division of labor...
...Reed's rebuttal excited the public health convention. Men shouted and gesticulated. Dr. Reed wanted to speak further. "Dr. Emerson," said he, "tried to make prohibition responsible for about everything except the frost on the pumpkin and the swallow's homeward flight." Dr. Charles Value Chapin of Providence, R. I., chairman of the meeting, ordered the discussion closed, soothed everybody...