Word: excerpt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Excerpt: "We'll have most of our meals at home?it's so much nicer than eating in restaurants and hotels. And besides we don't have enough money to waste any on expensive meals and theatres. John will come home for luncheon every noon...
...Sirs: An excerpt from the staid Times Weekly Edition, London, dated from Tangier, June 28, (From Our Morocco Correspondent) and captioned A TANGIER IDYLL-Love and Pistols...
Kentucky is the State once proud of its whiskey, women and steeds. Of his native State's whiskey from the pioneers to the Prohibitionists, Author Cobb betrays some knowledge. Excerpt: "Just about the time they first began making red likker here in Kentucky, which was back in pioneer days, there was a craze on for French names among our people. As a result there's a Bourbon County and a Fayette County and a town named Paris and a town named Versailles . . . so maybe they named it [red likker] for Bourbon County...
...into lyrics, I certainly do not claim to be representative of America, a country I do not know. I wanted to hit at the European bourgeois, who [is becoming] . . . more 'American' than most inhabitants of the United States. ... Mr. B. W. Smith is less 'Homo Americanus' than 'Homo Americanisatus.' " Excerpt from Author Feuchtwanger's pasquinade...
With many pauses for emphasis, characteristic of his speaking style, pauses during which he wags his tongue sidewise in open mouth, as if calculating, and winces about the eyes, as though thinking hard, he then launched into description, analysis, comparison of the Empire. A typical excerpt...