Word: byword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Augusta Victoria. Memories stimulated by this incident recalled that the late Kaiserin was one of the best intentioned and least fortunate of loving mothers, consorts, empresses. Her futile attempts to hold the fickle love or even the attention of Wilhelm II became a byword and a jest at court...
...Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769) first systematized the laws of whist, and it became a byword: "according to Hoyle." His treatises also include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
...gambling losses alone are estimated at well over $3,000,000. And the entertainments which he has staged upon his yacht off most of the fashionable watering places in Europe have become a byword, and are said to have accounted for another million...
...Angeles, San Francisco, Miami). "A section of the press of America has long lived and prospered by invading the rights of the individual with a ruthlessness that would do credit to a Hindenburg. By them that valuable guarantee 'Freedom of the Press' has become a meaningless hackneyed byword. To them, printing the amount of a man's income will probably mean no more than commercializing the sorrow of a murderer's mother or the innocent family of a prostitute." ? Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Proprietor...
...word coined from Gascon, a native of Gascony, whose propensity for bragging was a byword in France. † The total strength of the French Army is about 650,000. The Metropolitan Army (i.e., exclusive of the Colonials) has a peace strength of about 350,000. Possibly the mobilization strength is 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 at the outside. **Poland is not a member of the Little Entente, but has signed military conventions with Czecho-SIovakia and Rumania...