Word: fecund
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fecund mind of William Jennings Bryan brought forth a brain child, preconceived some years ago by the late Theodore Roosevelt. Now, according to Mr. Bryan, the public is ready to receive this plan...
Sabine Baring-Gould was within 26 days of 90 last week when he died in Devonshire. Of all writers he was the most fecund. His 147 works include novels, lives of the saints in 15 volumes, fairytales, autobiography (A Demon Churchman) and, above all, hymns. Two hymns universal in the Protestant world are his, viz.: Now the Day is Over and Onward, Christian Soldiers...
Something ought to be done. If these outbursts of infantile joy cannot be restrained, they can be diverted into more fecund channels. After all, clapping is purely mechanical, a very inadequate outlet for self-expression. Why not, instead, concerted singing of that familiar old song...