United States or India ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
And according to that, the admiral himself couldn't take that hose from that scrap-heap without authority. No, not if it was no more than an old shoe-lace, he couldn't. "'But that won't fill our water-tanks, and I'd like to use that hose, sir, says the boson. "'M-m! says Mr. Renner. 'M-m! now if Mr. Shinn was aboard Mr. Shinn was our executive. 'But Mr. Shinn is ashore.
Shinn added his opinion that the sale was fraudulent, and proposed entering suit to have it set aside; but I could attend to no suit and lost all hope of saving anything from my separate estate. Surely the hand of the Lord lay heavily upon me that day, but I never doubted that it was His hand. The Good Shepherd would lead me and feed me and I should know no want.
Maybe you was specializin' on spuds, or cabbages. But I'll bet you had your foolish spell." Mr. Shinn shakes his head. "All the digging I ever did out there," says he, "was with a niblick in the bunkers of the Roaring Rock golf course. No, I'm wrong." "Ha, ha!" says I. "I thought so." "Yes," he goes on, rubbin' his chin reminiscent, "I mind me of one little job of digging I did.
"For stuff that the 18th amendment says they can't have," says I. "Gettin' down to brass tacks, for a case of dry gin." Even that don't satisfy Vee. She demands why they should dig for any such thing on our land. "They might have heard some rumor," says I, "that MacGregor Shinn went off and left it buried there. As though a Scotchman could ever get as careless as that. I don't believe he did.
M. Shinn was my lawyer, and Judge Mellon his, and in which I secured my piano by replevin, Dr. John Scott being my bondsman, and learned that I might not call a porter into the house to remove my trunk. I therefore got my clothing, some books, china and bedding by stealth, and the assistance of half a dozen families of neighbors.
Describing the battle of Fort Moultrie, the blazing of the Kentucky wilderness, the expedition of Clark and his handful of followers in Illinois, the beginning of civilization along the Ohio and Mississippi, and the treasonable schemes against Washington. CONISTON. Illustrated by Florence Scovel Shinn. A deft blending of love and politics.
The Pittsburgh group comprised about forty men, most of whom retired as millionaires, though their names for the most part signify little to the present-day American. Kloman, Coleman, McCandless, Shinn, Stewart, Jones, Vandervoort are all important men in the history of American steel.
In it was a letter from William M. Shinn, saying that without his knowledge, my husband had succeeded in having my one-third interest in the Swissvale estate sold at sheriff's sale, and had become the purchaser. Mr.
We had had no settlement, so I went to my lawyer, William M. Shinn, who said that the entire interest of my debtor in his father's will was worth less than my claim since his death, without heirs, before his mother transferred his share to the other heirs. He advised me, if possible, to get a deed of that share as the only security for which I could hope.
"But the following day, as I heard the story from Charles H. Shinn," the doctor went on, "one of the best men in the gang took the lad aside the following morning as they were riding up the trail, and said to him: "'How much of that stuff you was preachin' last night did you mean? Of course, this is hard work; it has to be.
Word Of The Day