Word: half-dozen
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...company around Governor Farrington's table frowned approvingly and felt sure that no such contretemps could possibly occur in Hawaii. They nodded sagely as Mr. Bingham said: "I want to tell you right now that if a half-dozen of the prominent white people of Manila were to invite a few of the cultured and prominent Filipinos to be their guests at a tea, the agitation for Philippine independence would die right then and there...
...thinks, and he thinks out loud, and he has become one of the half-dozen or so most clearly speaking and candidly thinking figures in American public life today...
...alarming bulk since the World War. They are not ashamed of their bulk-it represents increasing advertising revenue and new features; it grows bigger every day; it does not seem to fear the tabloid cry. Daily editions of 40, 48 and 56 pages are becoming commonplace in a half-dozen cities in the U. S. Sunday (or Saturday) editions of less than 100 pages are considered puny. The Sunday New York Times has appeared with 240 pages-the paper of which could easily make seven octavo volumes of 300 pages each. This bulk will not abate, according to Henry Alexander...
...women in evening dress sat down to an expensive banquet. Each had paid $205 for the privilege-$5 for the food, $200 because Anne Morgan had an idea. There was, of course, a speakers' table, lifted not so much by carpenters as by its occupants-a half-dozen ambassadors, a sprinkling of ministers and delegates from the world's various corners, and Anne Tracy Morgan who thought nothing of summoning them. Coffee finished, they arose in diplomatic order to speak. Sir Esme Howard told of Great Britain. . . . Nobile Giacome de Martino told of Signor Mussolini. . . . What was this...
Baldwin, steady country squire and ironmaster; Chamberlain, austerely Victorian Birmingham politician; Churchill, hot-head of a half-dozen simultaneous careers; Joynson-Hicks, plus royaliste que le roi; Amery, implacable Imperialist; Birkenhead, a lawyer, brilliant, fashionable, yet most profound: these are Britain...