Word: doling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have so many Britons been jobless. Ominous last week was a warning issued by the Government's Industrial Transfer Board that there are now at least 200,000 "permanently unemployed" British coal miners who must either be transferred to other employment or continue indefinitely half-starved upon the dole. A most drastic move to prevent further increase in unemployment was made, last week, quite independently of the Government, by the British Railway Managers Association and the Great National Unions of locomotive engineers, firemen, railway men and railway clubs. Jointly and solemnly they covenanted that for the next twelvemonth...
Snapped crippled Philip Snowden, onetime Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer: ''This plan to abolish all taxes on hundreds of thousands of acres of land ... is perfectly outrageous. ... A monstrosity! . . . The landlords are to be put still further on the dole. . . . Scandalous ! . . ." And Cripple Snowden thumped the floor with his two rubber-tipped canes...
...Duchess of Wrexe" was dead, but London's aristocracy remained, despite postwar cocktail sets and dole-fed Lower Classes. There were still the flower women at the fountain in Piccadilly Circus, still the lions and Nelson, still the fireplace sanctum under the stairs in St. James's Club, still Big Ben and Curzon Street, still the higgledy piggledy of Shepherds Market. There was still Mrs. Beddoes, charwoman these many years to that kind Miss Janet and her beautiful sister Miss Rosalind, poor and snobbish. And today, being the wedding, was a holiday, for Mrs. Beddoes was going inside...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Charles Fletcher Dole, 82, father of Pacific air race sponsor, James Drummond Dole (TIME, Aug. 22, et seq.); at Boston, Mass. While his son grew rich farming good Hawaiian pineapples, the Rev. Dr. Dole penned improving tracts: Early Hebrew Stories, Noble Womanhood, Jesus and the Men about Him, The Religion of a Gentleman, My 80 Years...
...months ago I came from Honolulu; lost track of news for a month; got back numbers of TIME; found out all I wanted to know. Especially interesting to me was your write-up of the Dole Flight, but you made two mistakes: that Mrs. Jensen was a small woman, and you misquoted her-as did all other papers-upon the arrival of her second-prize-winning husband. Everyone, especially Mrs. Jensen, was expecting Martin Jensen in first, as last reports had indicated that he was leading. Even after Art Goebel's plane had been sighted in the distance...