Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What do you Americans mean by 'petting' or 'pecking'? The things which I imagine are referred to don't happen over there. I'm sure they don't" Canon Elliott of Leeds, England...
...What do you Americans mean by 'petting' or 'necking'?" queried, last week, at Chicago, Canon William Thompson Elliott of Leeds, England. Then, to show himself a clergyman of the world, he hastily added: "Those words don't exist in England. The things which I imagine are referred to don't happen over there. I'm sure they...
Prudent, Canon Elliott expressed no opinion on these definitions. When persistent newsgatherers asked: "Isn't it true that in Australia 'Do you smooge?' is equivalent to 'How about a petting party?'" the Canon was again silent...
...merry, the life of an executioner is often profitable. Robert Elliott executes for the state prisons of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey. He gets $150 per corpse. One day last week he earned $900. Early in the morning, while a crowd cheered, tooted auto horns and exploded flashlights, he executed three men at Charlestown, Mass., then took a train for Sing Sing. It was late when he arrived. The condemned men lay awake in their uncurtained cells in the harshly lighted, white-painted death-house. A Negro was singing a song. That afternoon the black man had tried...
...Howard Elliott '81, President of the Council, presided. The following men were present at the meeting: H.L. Clark '87, A.T. Perkins '87, vice-president, T.W. Slocum '90, E. Hollisher '97, E.H. Wells '97, L.P. Marvin '98, J.W. Prentiss '98, Eliot Wadsworth '98, B.H. Dibblee '99, N.F. Ayer '00, J.P. Jones '02, J.R. Hamlen '04, Chairman of the Executive Committee, John Richardson '08, S.D. Warren '08, H.C. Clark '11, Leverett Saltonstall '14, vice-president, J.W.D. Seymour '17, and D.T.W. McCord '21, acting executive secretary...