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Word: comma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...London, the drives across from Iowa to California and back, the no jewelry and always low heels, were all good in their day; but now that all the magazines (including TIME)?that is, practically all?have dully and faithfully recorded them with scarcely the deviation of a comma, isn't it about time to release a new one? Really, a cosmopolite's (the term is yours) wife must have had two or three other experiences! EDITH TWAIN MCDERMOTT

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...Dudley Fitts, who can, and, on occasion, does write verse which at least scans, has contributed some doggerel which smells of the Rotunde and of which this particularly gifted critic cannot decipher so much as a line. One of its verses begins with a comma. It doesn't really seem to matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRING HOUND AND HORN PLEASES AND PUZZLES WITH WIDE VARIETY | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Leave out a comma here & there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...doubtless your intention to insert a comma or semicolon between the word "drinking" and the word "minors." We would like to have your assurance that this was your intention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Life Saver Bates, a comma, as requested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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