Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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One evening last week an elderly, scholarly gentleman at the railroad station in New Haven. Conn, was extricating himself as goodnaturedly as he could from beneath a commodious piece of brown headgear which had been shoved down over his ears, not by a Hallowe'ening undergraduate but by a hearty...
"You! You! You!" cried a score of voices until Lord Hailsham frantically waved this suggestion down. Pale but determined, Mr. Baldwin then asked for "a free hand in determining the party's fiscal policy." All in favor were to signify by raising their right hands. Short-sighted Leader Baldwin peered...
Dr. Albert Einstein turned down two vaudeville offers from London.
In Palestine. Everybody knows that Joshua and his army of invading Israelites marched round about the Canaanite city of Jericho, blew trumpets for seven days before they sacked the city. Recently British archeologists who have spent many months studying the ruins of the city which was destroyed almost 4,000...
"They say my lease expires Nov. 21. That gives me three weeks," he stormed. "But if they come to make me move I will be here working. And if they come to tear down my studio I will still be here working."