Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taylor went to the big outdoor meeting. But there was no chance for him to make his fine speech there. Glowering more and more darkly, Mr. Taylor did not go to that evening's banquet for the Nominee in Johnson City. Instead, he went to Washington. He was mad. They would see. That Carroll Reece! That Claudius Huston! That *** never mind! Just wait. J. Will Taylor controls more Republican votes than practically any man in Tennessee. Hmph...
...Well, I could go the doctor one better. I think they are not only tired, but they are thoroughly and completely disgusted with them...
Though the precise origin of the noun gigolo (zhi-go-lo) is obscure, it probably derives from the verb gigotter "to kick about," the adjective gigotté "strong sinewed'' and the noun gigots "legs," or "shanks...
Hotly pressed last week was the annual battle between statesmen who want to balance the Budget of France by the first of the year and politicians who would like to go on talking about it until early spring...
...Moneypenny. Perhaps it was the purpose of this play that, after seeing it, one should go out among the trees, drink buttermilk, nibble roots and herbs, renounce money as "the root of all evil" (a line in the play). This purpose was not accomplished. Author Channing Pollock, a great showman, is not a great artist. He has tried to do a Faust, with snatches of The Adding Machine and the Ballet Mechanique. His devil is a silk-hatted Babbitt named Mr. Moneypenny, who seizes an old and whining clerk named John Jones, gives him ticker tape and a Park Avenue...