Word: dis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mark's In-the-Bouwerie in similar fashion, concluded that the vault-batterers had intended to hold a Vanderbilt body for ransom. Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence (alias Aircraftsman Shaw), soldier of fortune and author (The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Revolt in the Desert), was dis covered to be translating Homer's Odyssey into English verse. Augusta, Ga. is booming its winter-resort possibilities. A committee was formed to co-ordinate all sports (golf, polo, tennis, horse shows, race meets, baseball). The chairman: Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, oldtime American League baseballer (Detroit...
...developed colds to prove the filtrate the causative agent. Unfortunately Drs. Doull and Long have not been able to develop the virus in the laboratory. If that becomes possible or if the germ or germs which generate the virus are discovered, immunologists may develop a preventive for an annoying dis ease which inconveniences four out of ten men and seven out of ten women in the U. S. twice a year (October and January), and yearly causes a two-billion-dollar loss in wages...
...barnlike headquarters of the Fresh Air Taxi Company in uptown Manhattan. They go to a meeting of the Mystic Order of the Knights of the Sea, talk to Madame Queen on the telephone, mispronounce words of four or more syllables by the formula of substituting "re" for "dis" as in "regusted," and "ul" for "or" as in "incorpulated." The story deals with a party to which Duke Ellington's orchestra, of Harlem's famed Cotton Club, are driven in the Fresh Air Taxi, and with the deed to some southern property. It must have been hard to make...
Last month Publisher Macaulay, not satisfied with the title Babe Gordon, offered $100 for the best suggestion, to be used on possible later editions, as probable title of a play version. Titles already dis carded: Pleasure Woman, Hell's Belle...
...have a mighty good right to take your stand without being called dis-loyal. Fred A. Reynolds. Kimball...