Word: oftener
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...been the practice of the German fighting forces to disturb the quiet of that holy day," and strongly implied that a spontaneous Christmas truce is possible this year at least in regard to German bombings. During World War I in various individual sectors of the Western Front there was often such spontaneous Christmas truce as the Pope last week thought well to mention. But a formal, negotiated 1940 Christmas truce was seemingly ruled out by Winston Churchill fortnight ago in the House of Commons. To a question from Laborite Thomas Ellis Naylor whether His Majesty's Government would "invoke...
...with regard to overcoats and footwear), and they seem to be a little better housed too. There were fewer queues outside the food stores, shops and warehouses appeared better stocked than in 1932, and street begging had considerably decreased. However, people in rags, with indescribably dirty hands and faces, often covered with pocks and scars, are far from uncommon...
...often gets his knuckles rapped when he monkeys with the balance of nature. Starlings were introduced into the U. S. to crowd out English sparrows. Now the starlings are a great nuisance in some eastern cities, while the replacement of horses by automobiles hit the sparrows harder than the starlings did. When rabbits were taken into Australia they proliferated enormously for lack of natural enemies. Wholesale slaughter has not suppressed them. Australia also had a distressing experience with the prickly pear - but in this case there was a happy ending. The prickly pear story, abstracted from a publication...
Said Poetaster Hearst, by way of apology: "It is often very warm in southern Spain. And sometimes the heat affects a traveler's head. It was in such a moment of aberration that [these] verses - largely imaginative - were written by your columnist...
...Word (conceived, produced & acted by Jimmy Savo). Little Jimmy Savo with his big black eyes, dwarf's body and appallingly baggy pants has often been called one of the world's great clowns, a pantomimist in Chaplin's class. Highbrows have rhapsodically declared that he brings the Commedia dell' Arte back to one-man life. Hundreds of vaudeville audiences have paid him the simpler tribute of howling when he whispered the song River, Stay 'Way From My Door and shooed the river away with childlike gestures. His last Broadway appearance was in the Rodgers & Hart...