Word: growed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realize that after all, humor is limited and minds even of jesters will grow tired. But may we offer a suggestion? It is not wise to make a clock tick backwards. The past cannot be idly conjured up. It would be better, perhaps, to reiterate time-worn subjects, and to wring out mirth from the present at the expense of other colleges, cities, and societies, than to revert to the past, and bring to light only stuffed caricatures...
...sharp evening in December, 1888, "The Count" remembers. Into his Pearl Street shop came a rising young barrister for whose pompadour and mustache Manhattan already entertained an admiration that was to grow and grow as the barrister matured and developed a beard. The gentleman was quite excited. He was, he said, to be married in the morning. Carlo Salvator Cicero and no one else must come to his house after breakfast. Mr. Cicero went. He whetted his blade, he whipped his lather, he wielded scissors, comb and brush to achieve the acme of tonsorial impeccability the masterpiece of a career...
...best man ever born in the Union," said Freddy, "even though Freddy knocked him down. He got up like an angry lion and came at me, but his friends stopped the battle there. At that time he was a handsome blond, and was just beginning to grow side whiskers...
...young Dodge brothers (John F. and Horace E.) invested $5,000 apiece. John Gray put up $10,000 but "didn't think the stock would amount to anything and wouldn't advise anybody to invest in it." Horace H. Rackham had $5,000 that he hoped would grow. Mr. Couzens' sister, Mrs. Rosetta V. Hauss placed $100 in the pie. These people and a few others had children and grandchildren who were born with silver spoons in their mouths. Today the living and the heirs of the dead are being sued by the U. S. Govern-ment...
Italia Virile. Lest little Rico, Tito and Beppo grow up without proper enthusiasm for black shirts, castor oil and kindred masculinities of Fascism, they shall no longer be taught important subjects like history, literature and philosophy by women, but by men only, "in- spired and animated by strong, virile sentiment." So announced Professor Pietro Fedele, Italian Minister of Education, who last fortnight weeded out many a college professor and high school teacher possessed of un-Fascist sentiments. Elucidation: "Observation has demonstrated that women lack enthusiasm for philosophy, which they always seek to tincture with religion. They cannot write, and history...