Word: bosoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offensive to the eye than a Bruce Barton editorial. Instead of testimonials of persons who "cured themselves'' of asthma, rheumatism, appendicitis "by natural methods," there are articles on dietetics, child guidance, prevention of tooth infection, by qualified authorities. Instead of hints for the enlargement of the female bosom there is an article by Muriel Draper entitled "Mary Garden in Her Body" ("Is Mary Garden, After a Half Century of Time, Still the Most Perfect Specimen of All- Around Womanhood in the World Today...
...Times kept locked in its professional bosom the secret of the Plymouth Gentleman's identity, nor would it hint whether his conscience was bothered by Lady Astor's visit to the Soviets, her U.S. origin, her advocacy of Prohibition or her own inimitable personality. The Conservative Executive Committee of the Sutton Division took the advertisement seriously enough to hold an emergency meeting, and pass a resolution of "unabated confidence" in their Lady of Plymouth and Virginia...
...Dick-like compositions of Mr. Sherwood Anderson for instance." Unlike Sinclair Lewis, she does not bite her country's hand; unlike Edith Wharton (whose example influenced her early work) she casts no nostalgic backward glances toward Europe; unlike Ernest Hemingway, she carries no gnawing fox in her devoted bosom. Her simple, colloquial language obeys the canon of good prose (she rereads Pilgrim's Progress annually), and in that is unremarkable. But she has an individual quality, positive attributes which hide their light under a phrase or even a paragraph, but which shine through her pages like moonlight under...
...urgency for meaning. To that point all searchers return. And one is inclined to think that it will be the philosopher or the poet who does provide a meaning. For man has never been satisfied with knowing, but has constantly sought to take his knowledge into the bosom of understanding...
...found many a quip and crank that would wreathe even an alien reader in smiles. For the past three years Alan Patrick Herbert, Punch staff member and tireless contributor, has been regaling readers with the letters of Topsy, exclamatory and energetic post-War type, to her bosom friend. Publishers Doubleday, Doran have collected them in a book which reads more entertainingly than most such collections...