Word: circa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good of man must be the end of the science of politics.-Aristotle, circa...
...never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.-Horace Greeley, circa...
...afraid to rescue Elbert Hubbard from the Roycrofters (with, for instance, his definition of God as "The John Doe of philosophy and religion"). He will encounter such sharp or strange anonymities as the Polish proverb "God can shave without soap" or this definition of a suffragette (circa 1906): "One who has ceased to be a lady and not yet be come a gentleman." Of course there are omissions. Francis I's gallant "All is lost save honor" is quoted-and corrected-but Jim Fisk's complacent revision of it, substituting "nothing" for "all," does not appear. Kipling...
...flight, Hitler's downfall. St. Odile predicts the end of the Germans-unless she is predicting the end of the Mohammedans, a more pressing danger in the 7th Century. "America's greatest prophet," John Ballou Newbrough, prophesies that there will be a great revolution in the U.S. circa 1947 and that "all nations will be demolished and all the earth be thrown open to all people to go and come as they please...
...Heaven (Warner). They have just put the "old preacher" on the morning local when the Rev. William Spence (Fredric March) and his pretty bride (Martha Scott) arrive to take over their first parish. To the ardent young pastor, brimful of Methodism, the whistle-stop town of Laketon, Iowa (circa 1904) looks ripe for good works. To his comfortably nurtured, loving wife, its rutted streets, clapboard buildings, grass-roots manners seem as meager as her husband's yearly salary...