Word: granting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...purpose of these hearings was to evolve a common political denominator on which sufficient Republican strength could be massed to insure the farm bill against serious revision on the House floor. The committee was ready to compromise, to grant increased agricultural rates to win solid party support for the bill as a whole against all Democratic amendments...
Fortnight ago the people of the Confederation of Switzerland voted on a proposal to grant cities and towns local option on the sale of hard liquors-beers and wines not being affected...
...arrived at a white, two-story, shingled house, surrounded by towering trees, thick shrubs, he turned in at its gate. North Haven townsfolk had told him this was the summer home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow; that the blue-shirted rustic hoeing in the garden was Caretaker Hubert O. Grant. Quietly the young man approached the caretaker, spoke: "Good morning, sir. I'm sick. The doctor has told me to stay outdoors. Can you give me a job?" As down-Easters will, Caretaker Grant answered in few words, nodded, handed the young man a shovel. "Dig there," he said...
Then something happened. A rose bush was discovered where tulips should have been. Caretaker Grant lost his temper, the young man lost his job. And next night travelers Manhattan-bound on the State of Maine Express watched a young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert, chew a pencil, write many a word on many a piece of yellow paper. Soon in the Daily Mirror appeared a romantic piece about a "honeymoon nest." It purported to tell of the place where Anne Spencer Morrow, spinster, and Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, bachelor, will spend their first wedded days. And such a piece David...
...long, narrow ellipse hardly wider at the centre than at the ends, and a short, pear-shaped figure with the wide part at the back. Long and narrow were the heads of Theodore Roosevelt, Robert G. Ingersoll, Victor Herbert. Short and pear-shaped were the heads of Ulysses S. Grant, Charles Frohman, General Phil Sheridan...