Word: cetera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mine. Since then, he has become richer and richer and still richer. He dislikes discomfort, and-as he has money with which to buy comfort-he keeps no fewer than 13 châteaux in various parts of the world-Nice, Biarritz, London, Paris, et cetera...
There is an old-fashioned parlor game in which one person starts a story, another carries it on to a certain point, a third, fourth, fifth, et cetera, continues it, and the last ends...
This is the time when leaders in business are called upon to prophesy in the public prints, and do so. This year they have done so in great numbers, with great unanimity. Banker, lawyer, merchant-chief-all have rehearsed the Experts' Plan, agricultural revival, easy money, et cetera, et cetera-and have declared their optimism...
...spoke for about 20 minutes and throughout his speech he used golfing metaphors. The Allies were " bunkered " for the moment. A skillfully used "niblick " would put them " on the green." He expected to "hole out" in a few days. Tchicherin had momentarily laid the conference a " stymie," et cetera...
...prominent men of the past, tending to the conclusion that great achievements have been made perhaps as frequently by smokers as nonsmokers. For instance, among the former: Washington, Gambetta, Bismarck, Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier, etc. Obviously, tobacco can have had no beneficial effect other than from habit on the great deeds of the world...