Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week tough old Atheist Clemenceau, 87, followed Death to the house of Christian Foch, 77, and condoled privily with Mme. la Marechale. Stumping forth with sturdy cane, he said: "It is unjust. He was my junior and it is I who come to salute him who is dead. He is entitled to the profoundest respect...
...after. Said she: "Things have gone so far that it's not pleasant. We're not enjoying it. The young men are not enjoying it, and certainly the hostesses aren't enjoying it. Being late came into fashion but it's getting so that everybody comes later and later. As things are now you're invited to an 8 o'clock dinner and sometimes it's 10 o'clock before you sit down. Then there is a pause before you go to dance. It's why the young business...
Easter to the American Indians is the feast of the renascence of Nature. March is the time-when-the-green-lizards-come-out. Indians used to dance an eagle dance, splendid and feathered, imitating an eagle's swirling, pointing to the six points of the Indian compass (north, south, east, west, above, below), praying to Nature to yield tobacco and corn...
...Paul M. Angle, Executive Secretary of the Lincoln Centennial Association of Springfield, Ill., who admitted his delight at the opportunity to "put the magazine of the country in the frying pan and cook it brown." Uncooked and still open-minded, Editor Sedgwick gathered together all reasoned criticisms that had come to him and journeyed to Chicago, where he put all into the hands of Lincoln Expert Angle, and asked him to draw up the case against the Minor documents. Mr. Angle's "estimate" appeared in the April Atlantic...
...places mentioned in the guidebooks, but only once would she sit with him at a sidewalk cafe. "Smart people don't." Sam sputtered over her reply: "Why can't you enjoy both as long as you do enjoy 'em? Nobody's hired us to come here and be stylish! We haven't got any duty involved! Back home there may have been a law against enjoying ourselves the way we wanted to, but there's none here!" "My dear Sam, it's a matter of keeping one's self-respect . . ." Finally came...