Word: bosomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Draping the Grand Cordon across his bosom, Provisional President Rodriquez hurried out to meet friends who were hurrying to tell him the good news. Exactly ten minutes after his election he stood before Congress, proceeded to take the oath : "I swear to observe and to have observed the political Constitution of the United States of Mexico and the laws emanating therefrom. I will loyally and patriotically fulfill the office of Provisional President of the republic, looking only and always to the welfare of the country. If I fail to do so, may the nation hold me responsible...
...influences to be detected in his work. It appears not only in the implicit irony of his tale, but also in the "tendency to take his vocabulary for an airing." Such redundant phrases, frequently occurring, as "protested the impossibility of such omission," and "immeasurable adulation gushed from her generous bosom" are not only bad writing: they are a kind of bad writing which went out a generation ago, and there is little excuse for reviving it today...
...period during which an absentee may "sign off" for dining hall charges must be measured with sabbatical strictness. It is a petty injustice not to allow charges to be dropped for a shorter period, so that the tired student may rest from Friday to Tuesday in the bosom of his family in New Hampshire...
...their anxiety for scholarships, had much more liberal ideas than the Beaux Arts Architects about the proper way to run a costume ball. There was no débutante-encumbered Pageant. Costumes could be anything at all, and very little of that. Broadway took the Fakirs to its bosom, as did collegians and Greenwich Village girls. Popularity was the death of the Fakirs Ball It got so tough it had to be killed. There were battles royal on the ballroom-floor. Drunken youths played the hat & coat game in the cloakrooms. Chorus girls had their clothes torn off. Somebody shattered...
...saints that Ilarion peddles through the countryside. The two set off. On the theory that "it is better if one lives . . . than if one does nothing but regard the lives of other people," they have little to do with each other at first. Before the book ends they are bosom friends. Ilarion makes for towns to peddle his pictures in; Wanderluster Baerlein devotes most of his attention to ancient legends and modern lassies...