Word: gods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original metaphor" is almost too delightful and original a theory to be spoiled by the prosaic recital of fact. Still, as everyone even slightly acquainted with English history should know, it was named after a member for the city of London, a puritan with the puritanical name of Praise-God Barebones. His brother, by the way, bore the still more astounding name of "If-Christ-had-not-come- thou-wouldst-have-been-damned Barebones...
Retorted Senator Gould, unabashed: "Everybody who knows me knows that I have always favored light wines and beer. The people in my section make wine from elderberry flowers and grapes. God Almighty put those flowers and vines on earth and He intended them to be used...
...God was good to me every...
...always return homeward. Wilfred J. Funk dutifully summed himself up, in fact, in his opus for May 9 entitled "Symptoms," as follows: SYMPTOMS I am a sort of a cynical cuss, Mellow and mildly sarcastic. My sensibilities hardly will muss Any more; they're elastic. I have aversions-God knows it-a score- Motor trips, talkies, recitals, College reunions-they all are a bore Paining me deep in my vitals. I dislike dancing-at least with a And only when I am drinking; Cabarets long ago lost their appeal- Awful, to my way of thinking. Night life...
...evidence. Soon the "bulls" got Otero, Rico's faithful bodyguard, who stayed behind to shoot it out while Rico ran. And soon after that a detective got Rico in a corner. There was a long spurt of flame. Rico felt it in the chest. He fell. "Mother of God," he cried, a bit theatrically, "is this the end of Rico...