Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this only repeats a blunder common to 75% of the average careless reader of newspaper advertising...
...might interest you to know that this Company, having a capital of three hundred and fifteen million dollars and a surplus of approximately one-quarter of a billion, has no bond issue, preferred stock or bank loans ahead of the common. The stock of this Company is, by the way, considered in the West our leading prime investment...
...Washington Luis" is used in common parlance...
...Only a woman could have shuffled so shamelessly, only a woman could have abandoned with such unscrupulous completeness the last shreds not only of consistency, but of dignity, honor and common decency, in order to escape the appalling necessity of having, really and truly, to make up her mind. Yet it is true that . . . male courage, male energy . . . she also possessed...
Indeed, an impartial observer, mindful of the origin of many a Christmas custom, might think of this holiday as one that embraces all creeds, all times, in a common human experience. It occurs at the time of the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its farthest point south, and the day begins to grow longer. Pagans throughout the world, in ages past, held festivals at this period. In ancient Rome at the Saturnalia (Dec. 17-21), windows and rooms were decked with holly wreaths; and at the Sigittaria (Dec. 22), it was customary to give presents, especially dolls...