Word: adding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about "to go into action," Lapowski said his wife thought him lazy because he liked to lay abed and every time Stevens went to mowing at "so ungodly an hour" all he heard was "Sam, Stevens is up and at work don't be so lazy ad infinitum. . . ." J. KRAKAUER...
...Stafford as early as last January, must use any victory which the Party may win in a general election to jam through the House of Commons a sweeping "Emergency Powers Bill." If, as he expects, the House of Lords should balk at this, his Majesty must then be "ad- vised" (i. e. compelled) to create enough new peers to pass the bill and give Labor's premier Rooseveltian powers. Knowing Britain's upper classes for what they are-hard and sturdy nuts to crack-Sir Stafford fears class war over...
Tonic for Health." Reads this masterly ad, captioning a sketch of the three heroes and their exploit...
Frederic William Goudy's interest in the shape and style of letters started as a child when he decorated his Sunday School room with texts redrawn from specimen letters in an old type book and cut out of fancy wallpaper. As bookkeeper, clerk, unsuccessful publisher, ad vertising artist, he never lost interest in letters. From Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers, other famed printers and designers have built great reputations on the strength of two or three original alphabets. In the centre of the Goudy exhibition last week a streamer list hung from a column. It started with Camelot, 1896, ended...
...such a work proved a little too much for those who sit in back rooms and pound out superlatives. "The Police are Liars," "The Police are Fakers," they assure us. Snappy mottos, these, emblazoned in three foot red capitals, snappy mottos to garner quarters and to ornament the ad man's paradise...