Word: donning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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I don't know if that word was in use in other parts of the South, but it was much used here; however, I have not heard it in many years.
Thus, boundlessly in love at the age of 61, wrote a rich woman in her diary two years ago. Death came to her in shame and poverty last week. She died of pneumonia without receiving a word or line of sympathy from her first cousin George V, King and Emperor...
Seven Faces (Fox). As a short story Richard Connell's "A Friend of Napoleon" was awarded several prizes by juries who admired its light irony and neat construction. As a talking picture the pointed anecdote has been turned into a pointless but mechanically interesting vaudeville act for Paul Muni. He...
Herbert Bayard Swope, retired Executive Editor of the New York World, and his wife, sued one James Reynolds of Yonkers, N. Y., for $100,000 and $75,000 damages respectively. In 1927 the Reynolds car ran into the Swope car, injuring Mr. Swope's nose, cutting Mrs, Swope's face...
In Chicago, Gilva McClathie's wife haled him to court, sued for divorce. She said her husband sent her to the kitchen every morning, then, with admonitions of "Don't peek," hid her daily 75? allowance somewhere in another room. Mrs. McClathie's complaint was that some...