Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Very fine and praiseworthy your insistence that ''racket" be kept a word undefiled by loose usage. But why not, while you were at it, tell the origin and specific applications of the word so that we can know how to use it properly...
...succeed to the prime ministry on the fall of the Steeg cabinet, a move which many French newspapers continued to urge last week. Nervy, plump-cheeked Albert Oustric started his career before the War as plain "Albert," a white-aproned waiter in a Toulouse cafe. A little influence kept him out of the trenches, got him a berth in a munitions factory. After the War he started speculating. Financiers doubted last week whether he ever actually made much money, but with all the nerve in the world he rode high on the wave of French inflation, established Banque Oustric...
...finals of the national pocket billiards championship. They played the kind of pocket billiards that smalltown sports play in their dreams. Greenleaf won the bank with a perfect shot. His ball was flat against the rail. Then Rudolph broke cleanly, without leaving Greenleaf a shot, but as they kept on it looked more and more like Greenleaf's evening. By the seventeenth inning he had 118, 45 balls ahead of Rudolph. There were seven balls on the table - exactly the number Greenleaf needed to win, but he missed a long one. Rudolph made a run of 14, another...
...Italian vote at the next election. Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut was at the ringside rooting for Battalino and so was Mayor Walter Batterson of Hartford. Wild and scared in the first round, feeling the hostility of the crowd which had called him "cheese champion" because he kept his title safe by fighting only at catchweights, Battalino ran into one of Chocolate's short, clean punches, went down for a count of eight, tottered when he arose, apparently hopelessly beaten. But he lasted out the round, was stronger in the next, soon began to pile up points, crowding Chocolate...
...written an introduction to this book, in which he informs you that "Geoffrey West's" real name is Geoffrey H. Wells, no relation, who adopted his pen-name to avoid confusion. Everything in the book, says Wells, is quite true as far as it goes. "I have kept nothing back from him of any importance and if he has kept anything back from the public that is a matter of his own discretion. I have lived in accordance with my convictions and if I am troubled by remorse for certain things I have done, they are things so trivial...