Word: grandpa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only, get your red pencil after some words that are ready to be molted from your rather exceptional vocabulary. Grandpa "Potent" and a few of his confreres ought to get well-deserved old age pensions...
...editors and contributors- there was no chief among Editors Egmont Arens, Joseph Freeman, Hugo Gellert, Michael Gold, James Rorty and John Sloan-included some of the mainstays of the older magazines, especially artists: the powerful Gellert, convulsive William Gropper, sly Art Young with his tongue in his foxy-grandpa cheek. But for the most part they were new hands-economic malcontents and idealists recruited from the younger generation. There were names like Klein, Lozowick, Soglow and Dehn signed to some of the pictures. A young lady called Wanda Gag contributed a startling portrait of "The Tired...
...before his Hohenzollern grandfather, Wilhelm I, was proclaimed Emperor of Germany [1871] after the Franco Prussian War). "Dear little Willie's birthday ... a clever, dear, good little child. . . . May God preserve him and may he grow up good, clever, liberal minded in his views, worthy of his beloved grandpa.† who was so anxious about him that he should not grow up into a conceited Prussian." Of Wilhelm II (in 1877, eleven years before he became Crown Prince on the accession of his father, Frederick III [1888]). "Dear Willie of Prussia's 18th birthday. Received most delightful...
...There is no Foxy Grandpa behind The GRAPHIC'S prizes. Every reader of this newspaper knows how many cash prizes there are in our contest. And, besides, The Graphic puzzles are the 'best in the country. They are prepared by an expert and not by a stunned...
...classified among the "furriners", has invented a device destined to transform the entire academic world. The radio, which has brought upheaval and strike to the musical world, the "smiling voice" and unctuous "Goodnight" to churchly spheres, has already found legitimate application in the extension of university courses. Grandma and Grandpa Applebloom have been lapping up Professor Whosis' course on the philosophy of transmigration and the psychology of the billboard. Streams of erudition have been poured forth upon the desert...