Word: balm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dictionary do readers of average U. S. newspapers need for such journalistic jargon as sugar daddy, love nest, heart balm, torch murder. But last week the epigrammarians who write U. S. head lines were confronted by a phrase which even they could not grasp without assistance...
...probably the perpetual conservatism of undergraduates that led them to approve the continuance of the Dance; it must have been infinite optimism that, turned back from Copley Square by the University's authorities, and rebuffed from Memorial by the students themselves, was a balm strong enough to help the class upon a third road. Since 1922 stained glass and pseudo-Gothic vaults have reverberated once each year to jazz; but Protean student opinion stops changing for a moment, and finally agrees that bare wall expanse deadens good cheer. Back Bay is forbidden--all the better does the Harvard luster...
...miles an hour Lieut. Harry Halverson aboard the Question Mark reached out, grabbed the hose, thrust it into the tanks. Once there was bungling. Gasoline was spilt. Major Carl Spatz, the commander, was burned. Lieut. Elwood Quesada was overcome by fumes. But later a swinging rope conveyed zinc oxide, balm for the Major. Lieut. Quesada, recovered, idled in his berth, read a magazine. Other ropes were swung, provided oranges, oatmeal, coffee. The larder of the Question Mark was stocked at the start with roast chicken...
...Soothing balm was supplied by an obscure tribunal at Windhoek in the British Union of South Africa which last week restored to Wilhelm II two large farms illegally confiscated from...
...there was no balm in the Equitable Trust's advertisement, which read: "Banks don't solicit expiring accounts. Establish your banking relationship and your credit while conditions are favorable. No doctor is anxious to be called in when the patient is known to be dying. Neither can you expect any bank to want your account when you are in business trouble. . . . Be sure to establish a profitable connection when you are prosperous and in a position to choose...