Word: byword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dennis was the best hitter of the three, and yet, since the name Dennis was a byword in those days, had it been he who struck out with the bases full, Thayer would most likely have referred to the Dennis factor...
...Story. The Marches' position in the Middle-Western metropolis of St. Pierre was assured ? weren't they the children and grandchildren of old Andrew March who had always saved his pennies and whose name was still a byword for the good old rock-bound kind of success? And Bradford and Penelope March were advance for their day ? they let their children call them by their first names and believed in their being healthy and, as far as possible, free. But Janet, their daughter, was an absolutely modern model with the latest streamline attachments, self-starter...
...discussion of why, when and whom a girl should marry made into the semblance of important entertainment by the brilliant playing ot Lynn Fontanne. MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Reveals what is likely to happen when Main Street migrates to Hollywood. Glenn Hunter has made the movie-struck youth a byword in America. TWEEDLES-The old curiosity shop of the Maine coast made the setting of a satire on the futility of first family ways. It much resembles Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. POLLY PREFERRED - From the lobby of the Biltmore to the lots of Hollywood in quest...
Poor health and the Cox catastrophe relegated F. D. Roosevelt to the comparative seclusion of Long Island. But he is no longer an invalid. " See young Roosevelt about it" was once a byword in Washington, as it now is in the World of Construction, our second-biggest industry...
...Royal Mail Steam Packet Company operates the largest steamer, the "Araguya", plying between New York and Bermuda. The ship is a palatial liner of seventeen thousand five hundred tons displacement and the luxurious appointments of the ship are a byword with travellers...