Word: charly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After citing the notorious inconsistency of Editor White in estimating public char acters, Nominee Robinson said: "Let me tell you what Mr. White has said. ... He has described Herbert Hoover as a "fat, pudgy capon sitting on eggs...
Sirs: TIME'S scintillating, crisp, news style is hav ing a widespread effect on advertising copy, and magazine writing. Here lately I detect it in almost every magazine I pick up. Perhaps buried deep down in some article or some adver tisement, but nevertheless there, with its char acteristic sparkle...
...smart set reformers who are fully as hypocritical and shallow as the hardest-drinking dry in the Senate. These are they who weep crocodile tears over the poor workmen robbed of his beer because their bootlegger's bills are exorbitant. It is well that as sane and char eyed a man as MacDonald should have reminded America that the working man gets a bank balance or a Ford in return for his deprivation. His words more than counters balance the drivel with which Judge; Jr., ot al unintentionally lend point to the convictions of Mr. Boreh, Senator Pepper...
...second Junior sequad worked out against Browne and Nichols in a dummy scrimmage of a most informal char- acter. The Juniors were on the defensive throughout, but not score was made...
...into such malaproprieties as saying "acow-sticks" for "acoustics" "despick'-able" for "des'picable," "gu-raghe" for "ga'rage" "lie'aizon," "for leeay'zon" revelant" for "relevant" "Balon'ie" for "Bouloan' " (Boulogne), "charrabanks" for "sharabang" (as the British doggedly pronounce the French char-à-bancs...