Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They were far-sighted men, those pioneers who chose crimson for the Harvard color. To think that they could visualize the Freshman dormitories and know that red lead is the cheapest of all paints! COUNU CRAVV...
Yesterday evening in Paine Concert Hall Hugh Maury Hite ocC. of Cambridge was awarded the Medaille France-Amerique for the best declamation in French on a subject drawn from the history of French civilization. He chose as his title "M. Raymond Poincare", and told incidents of the latter's family and education. He went on to show how the great French President reflects the sentiment of all France, and quoted several passages from his works...
...expiration of the terms of one member in each of the three groups-representatives of labor, the railroads and the public. In the last two of these classes the President reappointed the men whose terms expired-Horace Baker and R. M. Barton. For the labor vacancy he chose E. F. Grable, former president of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance-of-Way Employes. Mr. Grable achieved prominence in last year's railway strike by his success in keeping most of the maintenance-of-way employees at work...
Foreigners are especially open to these dangers. One cannot blame the Italian who chose "cellar-door" as the most melodious word in our language; Tennyson's choice for the same distinction unfortunately is not admitted to polite company. Even men of the same tongue are apt to get into difficulties, as Americans in England have discovered with such words as "bloody" and others that appear equally innocent. Lore Robert Cecil, when he was being entertained in a Boston club, meant only courteous approval when he remarked "What a homely room you have here!"--and he found it difficult to understand...
...experience of Yale, if no more than a fiction, is a lesson for all time. With the pride of crudition, it sponsors chose for its motto a high-sounding. He brew phrase; but instead of some such noble sentiment as "Lux of Veritas", malicious scholars are rumored to, have proved that the phrase means "Farmers and Swindlers". Namers of summer cottages, and all others who are lured by the lust for distinctive words, will do well to take warning. A spade is not always a spade...