Word: fitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoped to repent my past sins in the hope that when I died I would go to heaven and see Robert E. Lee. But I have changed my mind. I want to go to hell to see the devil burn those Yankee uniforms off Joe Wheeler and Fitz...
...hoped to repent my past sins in the hope that when I died I would go to heaven and see Robert E. Lee. But I have changed my mind. I want to go to hell to see the devil burn those Yankee uniforms off Joe Wheeler and Fitz Lee.*- I had thought," continued the sabre-tongued Senator from the side of his mouth, "that I would like to go to heaven and commune with the spirits of Patrick Henry, Clay and Calhoun, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. But, like old Jube, I seem disposed to change my mind...
Listing $700,000 debts and no assets, Edward Fitz-Gerald, Duke of Leinster appeared in London's Bankruptcy Court to tell his creditors how he had embarked in 1928 on a lavish "prospecting" trip to find a U. S. bride who would cure his chronic financial trouble. The impoverished Duke, who once sold stock in himself as "The Dukedom of Leinster Estates, Inc.," said he was twice fooled by "possibilities," finally married Mrs. Rafaelle van Neck of Manhattan, no heiress...
...Baggage, as the editors point out, is composed chiefly of abstract words, it contains many U. S. technical coinages like airbrake, airline, automobile, autobus, autocar, autotruck. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes thought up the word anaesthetic in 1846. Appendicitis was introduced by another U. S. physician, Reginald Heber Fitz, 40 years later. Alumnus was taken directly from Latin about 1696, and in 1882 Doglover Albert Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed as Spanish...
Hazel-eyed, dark-haired, 6 ft. 3 in., and 40, Winner Hill is a broker (Manhattan's Calvin Bullock), married to onetime Elinor Dorrance (Campbell Soup). Winner of the hard-fought prettiest-girl title was blonde Adelaide Whitehouse, debutante daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Fitz Hugh Whitehouse of Manhattan...