Word: invitee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
"You can search all Aeschylus and Sophocles without finding a better example of hubris than Mr. Hoover's behavior in 1928. [His] . . . was not the wanton violence of the ancient tragic heroes but a smug arrogance. . . . His campaign promises ran to that excess which above all things offended the Greek...
"The people have adopted an attitude of resignation to military expenditures. We advise the army not to be satisfied with compelled recognition of its estimates but to invite discussion and offer explanations."
Seven months ago William Averell Har- riman. then board chairman of potent Aviation Corp.. was persuaded to invite Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord into the directorate of Avco. Mr. Cord had been a painful nuisance to Avco and other ''pioneer'' operators with his low-fare Century...
School children whose teachers and parents berate them for saying. "It is me," "I wish I was there," and many another casual solecism, could take heart last week. Approved as good colloquial usage were 230 such commonplace errors, in a survey published by the National Council of Teachers of English...
Few writers have been so infallible as Rosamond Lehmann. Dusty Answer (1927) might have been a lucky strike; A Note in Music showed it was not. In Invitation to the Waltz Authoress Lehmann, with sure and delicate touch, tells a tale of vernal English virginity. Olivia and Kate were sisters...