Word: curl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince George, youngest son of King George V: "I underwent an operation to have my two little toes removed. I had been afflicted with 'hammer-toe'-a shortening of the tendons which causes the little toe to curl up and is very painful in walking and dancing, of which I am very fond...
...under three heads, which will get rid of the objectionable "fascinating". There are "linnets" (this is highly complimentary and has a pleasanter sound than "fascinating" anyway); there are 'pones" (this combines all the contemptuousness of "drone" with the heavy odium of "prune"); and there are "grusks" (any man would curl up and wither if he were called a "grusk" out of a clear...
...somehow, reminded one of an inferior dried fig;" "Benny Dodd's Adventure", with its O. Henry climax; "It!", full of pathetic, sodden shoes; and "Spring Scandal", peppered with potentially horrifying gossip such as, "That be a pore creature, the Queen o'Spain, Oi rackon. No flesh. No substance. No curl"--are pretty near perfection in their...
...have wasted better elsewhere--inventing epigrams! These related to a (with reservations) gentlemen from Amerongen. Their delicate spirit was imbued in such phrases as "Kan the Krazy Kaiser." And at the same time, several million doughboys were promising their Dulcineas a piece of that personage's ear, or a curl from his right moustache. Apparently oblivious of the blissful fact that the "glorious leadership" of this man was worth at least an army corps to the Allies...