Word: forfend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been expected for weeks. Democrats had banked on it. Republicans had tried to forfend its effects. It might have been an anticlimax after so much anticipation. But the Hoover cry of "Social ism!" in New York last fortnight re charged the atmosphere. It was electric when it came last week ? the Norris cry of "octopus!" in Nebraska...
...enemy and physical friend of college years? What will be the end of the cigar--the vicious Invincible without which no Oral Examination is complete--the mild, light brown ten-centers, not to consume one of which is to admit of a still-undeveloped manhood? The gods of incense forfend that they should all descend to the level of the yeast cake that one is supposed to order with every other meal...
...Heaven forfend that we should give our days and nights to the study of grammar, or the practice of "English as she is spoke". Affectation can be carried to excess as well in the use of a language as in any other species of human thought and action; super-conceits are only ridiculous. But it does seem as though even leaving English. A and the "red-cap" out of the question the average person, be he litterateur, scientist of philosopher, should be willing both to listen and speak with some degree of care. More than that, he must...