Word: half-past
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...with a pharmacist's "scruple mark." To draw books from these shelves one must go to the librarian and boldly name the book. The Athenaeum has a creaky elevator, manned by kindly old Thomas, who wears black gloves in summer, drinks his tea daily in the elevator at half-past four...
...conversational style is growing on her to such an extent that she no longer bothers very much to punctuate: " 'We are heading for the Luxembourg gardens, will you sit there with me for a moment, I'll drive you home, I bet that you dine at half-past seven...
...Arturo Toscanini came to town via Nurnberg yesterday at half-past eight. He was greeted by Frau Winifred Wagner and at once installed in the Haus Wahnfried, where the distinguished conductor had been invited to live by Frau Wagner...
...hand on the table, seemed to lose himself in memories. "Ja . . . ja. . . ." The reporter quoted him as saying "Good beer, good health." But George Ehret did not say that. Life was more than food and drink. In the evenings, perhaps, a game of dominoes. No better game. . . . About half-past nine a band was sure to come round. All the German street bands in the Bronx called at George Ehret's house. He would send the butler down with a glass of beer and a dollar bill for every man. The butler grumbled because he knew the tricks...
...have been revealed and the cherished belief that it gained one minute a week regularly thus destroyed. Belated students hastening to nine o'clocks will derive small comfort if the clock indicates five minutes past--when it may possibly mean ten minutes past. And if perchance, its solemn gong should announce the arrival of ten o'clock at an unseemly, early hour, such as half-past nine, there will be wise and knowing shaking of heads instead of a healthy, jubilant rush for the doors. Ignorance has always been bliss for those who wish to live "happily ever after...