Word: bywords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning Gopal Singh went out on the veranda of his house near the Himalayan foothills and handed his wife, Pyari, some women's dresses to hem. Said Pyari: "Isn't it enough that you should make your house a byword . . . must [you] bring your whore's clothes here? . . . Take back your filth!" Gopal Singh slapped her face. Screamed Pyari: "Why don't you shoot me? . . ." Half an hour later, Pyari was dead. Said Gopal's father: "We must say she died of cholera." Said Gopal: "She must be burned at once. ... It must...
When swindler Clarence Charles Hatry was sentenced to 14 years in jail (two of them at hard labor), he lamented: "My name has become a byword, and I am irretrievably ruined...
That was in 1930, at the bar of London's Old Bailey. Hatry's name was indeed a byword-for financial juggling at its most spectacular. When all his Indian clubs clatter-banged down together in 1929, investors lost $145,000,000. Hatry's crash shook shaky Wall Street. But last week Clarence Hatry, out of jail, was far from irretrievably ruined. From the look of things he was building up another fortune-his third...
Edward Hull Crump has bossed Memphis so long (36 years) that many Memphians hardly know they are being bossed. "See Mr. Crump about it," is a Memphis byword. And Memphis' two newspapers (both Scripps-Howard) rarely ask him a rude question...
...infantile paralysis had cut short his career. He was Businessman Roosevelt then, head of the American Construction Council, which had just sponsored a plan for curtailing credit and deferring new construction to curb runaway building costs. Recalling how " 'See young Roosevelt about it had once been a byword in Washington," TIME called him "a leading citizen ever since he took office as President of the Harvard Crimson...