Word: extolling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement that ''a list of rhyming words is given here to aid in writing the last lines of the uncompleted limericks in yesterday's Journal and Graphic." Followed some words. The Journal limerick required a rhyme with "stroll" and "roll'; the editors of the Home News suggested "poll," "extol," "dole," "cajole," "condole," etc., carefully explaining that the first meant the head; the second, to praise in highest terms; the third, to give in small quantities; the fourth, to impose on by flattery or delusive promises; the fifth, to express sympathy, etc. The Graphic limerick rhymed with "stew" and "chew...
Democrats who do not take kindly to either Mr. Ford or Mr. McAdoo extol Oscar W. Underwood as a " second Grover Cleveland." And Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington critics, adds: " Underwood's relation to his party and public life generally is not unlike the relation of the new British Premier, Bonar Law, to British public life. Underwood, indeed, might claim not unreasonably that he is probably, on the whole, a somewhat abler man than Bonar Law. Certainly he has a greater experience in public life and in party leadership...