Word: dight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nomination distorts his image in the public eye. In the case of Candidate Smith, his enemies see him more and more as a subtle knave of Rum and Romanism wearing the stripes of Tammany. His friends, in turn, are prone to exalt him as a Galahad of the masses, dight in spotless, and stripeless, armor. Actually, of course, he is simply a 54-year-old up-from-the-bottom man whose profession has been politics, whose acquired technique is state-government, whose ambition is what he calls "the highest office in the world." In acquiring his technique he found that...
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...York Evening World calmly and cleverly ripped a page out of society's playbook, announced a $1,000 "treasure hunt." The Evening World's democratic clientele had heard about Edward of Wales' crawling on hands and knees through alleys in London's Limehouse district, accompanied by gorgeously dight female companions, nosing out clues to pots of gold. They had heard of young swells and sylphs of upper Park Ave. riding hilariously about Manhattan in limousines, sending their chauffeurs into Pierre's or Tiffany's to inquire for neatly enveloped hints that had been left there by committees employed to entertain...
...they fear that in the new chapel they could not "with such consort as they keep, entice the dewy-feathered sleep"? It seems most probable that Princeton is able to "love the high embowed roof, with antique pillars massy proof" just so long as the "storied windows rightly dight" do not east upon the student body too frequent "a dim religious light...
...Houston delegation to London last year rallied to the cry of: "Houston in 1925!" so, before ever the business of the convention was under way, the delegations to Houston were shouting: "St. Petersburg [Fla.] in 1926!" "Next year in Philadelphia!" and a band from Mexico City, gorgeously dight, attended Señor Arturo M. Elias, a half-brother of President Calles, about town. Under its stirring notes, careful listeners could hear the patient little refrain: "Perhaps we'll meet some sunny day in Mexico...