Word: anent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul, because he was unable to collect a $15 judgment from David Gilman, theatre manager, Kenneth Spencer, ventriloquist, marched across the street from the theatre, made his dummies engage in a dialog anent the integrity of Manager Gilman. Chirped Dummy Spencer : "Say, Gilman, when are you going...
None the less, his remarks anent the intellect of undergraduates seemed, to me, a little personal and I hastened to Widener to read the article in the Saturday Review to which you had reference. Immensely to my disappointment and somewhat to my relief 5 found the following sentence: "In this connection, I am not referring to the 'prestige' universities, as the Americans call them; these, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and perhaps, Cornell, are imitations of European or English models...
...miles and back to Denver on three successive Saturdays to get a copy of TIME, and I am no longer young. Hut never before have I felt like kissing the editor on both cheeks as when I read in the current issue his matchless rejoinder to a supercilious fanatic anent the use of an innocuous expletive. It served him right, for he betrays a mentality which even TIME can never hope to enlighten...
...information anent the repeal of an old rule, thanks.-ED. In South Carolina...
...Holy Name Society in Boston. William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, said: "I desire to speak earnestly anent a degenerate form of singing which is called 'crooning.' No true American man would practice this base art. Of course they aren't men. ... If you will listen closely [to crooners' songs] you will discern the basest appeal to sex emotion in the young...