Word: distinguisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Squirrel," "sunbeam," "little devil." These were some of the diminutives which were supposed to distinguish the saucy, small-voiced Fritzi from the big-chested titans of the opera. But diminutives did her no more harm than the rumored tiffs with Sembrich and Emma Fames, whose ears she claimed to have boxed. Instead they brought her a vogue all her own. After three years at the Metropolitan, Charles Dillingham offered her the then fabulous sum of $1,000 a week, a company of her own and roles made to order. Immediately, and despite the objections of her new husband, Baron...
...when the Mexican War broke out, about thirteen hundred men had graduated from the Academy, many of whom rendered conspicuous services to their country. Lee, Bragg, Sherman, Hooker, Grant, and McCellan are but a few of the West Point names distinguish-in the war. Winnfield Scott, who captured Mexico City, wrote in 1860 this famous statement, which every Plebe knows by heart: "I give it as fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats...
Although the artisans, artists, scholars, and adventurers he mentions may only dull their fine points in college, how many will be unable to distinguish ragged edges from the unusual traits which make college a failure until they experience the temporary influence of college. A youth of eighteen or twenty who prides himself on being one of these types will not be convinced of his error, if it be an error, by merely doing as he wishes for a year before college. And better that he be a misfit for a few years in college and find himself at last, than...
...surely unnecessary for you to distinguish between a mother and a father swan by such terms as "pen"' and "cob" . . . and was it necessary for you to call the swanlets by such an ugly word as "cygnets...
...Protestant preachers realize this but avoid the subject as unpleasant. Many others are busy adding to the confusion. Not so Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, curly-headed, fat-cheeked, dynamic pastor of Manhattan's Park Avenue Baptist Church. Last week he made one of the direct, unequivocal remarks which distinguish him from so many divines, which make the overflow of his congregations willing to listen to him by radio in the basement of his church in order to earn admission to regular upstairs pews on the following Sunday (TIME...