Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S use of "lagniappe'' (Sept. 23, p. 13), easily a dollar's worth of word and unfortunately not included in many abridged dictionaries, recalls Mark Twain who, in Life on the Mississippi reported pickling up an excellent word, worth traveling to New Orleans to get-"a nice, limber, impressive, handy word-'Lagniappe.' They pronounce it lanny...
President Hoover vexed the convention of the American Dental Association at Washington last week by only greeting a few of them (see p. 13).* Also they were cross because they did not get the newspaper publicity which conventioneers expect. Partly that was not their fault. Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington and two sensational stranglings filled Washington papers and clogged national press services. But the dentists themselves were also to blame. Enterprising organizations do not wait for reporters to attend their meetings. Good publicity committees send information, well prepared, to the newspapers. The dentists did not have...
...football games today are really easy ones to predict, but with this bump still on my head I have to be pretty careful about how much I think. Of course I'll get the winners right but I might miss up a point or so on one or two of the scores, so you better haul right out of those pools and wait until next week. By the way, I wish every one would stop writing me for the scores early in the week. I've got an agreement with most of the coaches not to give them out before...
Those who have thumbed dead instruments in a vain attempt to get material over the wet wire in time for the football extra or evening edition will bear grateful testimony to the wisdom of the Athletic Association. And those who have hurriedly pushed the last few sentences along a hesitating wire amid sullen curses addressed to weather conditions and press boxes alike, will be the first to realize the paper value and so the money value of conditions conducive to speed and comfort in play by play reporting...
...Most of my fan mail comes from fraternity and sorority houses," she said, "I really get a lot, and from all over the world...