Word: bosoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrat Reed, rheumatic and weak from age (74) and rage, had a speech in his system for which he needed an audience. Democrat Ely had a hope in his bosom that the meeting might openly come out for Landon. The emotional needs of the others were vague but earnest, so earnest that, although in the sumptuous suite where they were assembled a private bar had been provided, they were too busy to patronize...
Cracked Delegate Dimond: "If you should happen to see him [Wilbur Pledge Brown] walking down the street with Ananias on one side and Sapphira on the other you might be certain that he was in the bosom of his family...
...that's only part of the story. Lord Burghley ran in evening clothes. TIME did a sloppy bit of reporting here-neglected to mention whether 1) Tuxedo or formal, 2) stiff or soft bosom shirt, 3) high shoes or dancing pumps...
...fallacies which man hugs to his bosom, the one characterized by Ruskin as "the pathetic fallacy" is the most common to romantic poets. As generally applied, "the pathetic fallacy" imputes to Nature the appropriate emotional states of the despairing, joyful or ironic poet. Poe's croaking ravens and ghastly rushing rivers were clear examples; T. S. Eliot used the same stage effects in more modern terms. Last week a new poet struck his lyre, and to ears that could remember echoes, the minor strains were far older than Ruskin. Not so much for his gently conventional verse...
...along, not because he wanted her but because she nagged him into it. She soon got tired of him, and he was glad to leave her for the War. Back home again, he became a hardworking, successful surgeon, an aging Spartan boy with a greying fox in his bosom. When an accident ruined his right arm, Katie left him. Meantime Beverly's wrong husband had died, so at last their tragicomedy of errors came to a rhymed conclusion...