Word: dabbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scene. In his last harangue to the jury, Lawyer Littleton quoted Shakespeare on the subject of "a good name" until he even made Oilman Sinclair snuffle and dab his eyes. Sinclair grasped Lawyer Littleton's plump hand when he sat down. Sinclair's wife and mother sobbed softly. When the jury returned from its deliberations, Sinclair stood up. Littleton remained seated. The Sinclair ladies had withdrawn to a corridor...
...Dolittle is probably the only man in the world who talks animal language-in all dialects. His adventures are varied -one of the most entertaining being his connivance in the escape of Sophie, the trained seal. The good doctor's intimates are all with him-Jip, the dog; Dab-Dab, the duck; Too-Too, the owl; Gub-Gub, the pig; Matthew Mugg, the Cat's meatman. The book is excellent propaganda for the prevention of cruelty to animals...
...gloomy outlook from any point of view. The undergraduate looks out from his window at the sky and the roofs and the slush,--all a dirty slate gray,--blows his nose and mutters: "Dab it, Cab-bridge is one town that God forgot!" But it is less trouble to go on sneezing and gargling than to go to the doctor's office at the outset. There the service costs nothing and a little properly directed attention can put an end to an embryo cold which is a personal discomfort and may be a public nuisance. With the storm-signals...
...much is being said at present about the value of odds and ends. It seems to be a general impression that a student can take a slight dab or economics, a dash of sociology, a salting of rhetoric and literature, a minute sprinkling of precious stones, creative listening, fine arts, and what not, and a very medium dose of languages, and come out quite the University concoction. Glimpses and vistas, not real understanding, are being recommended for the "broad" college course. The student is getting the merest taste of the elementals of everything, and dropping the threads where they begin...