Word: lexicon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garner Bloc. Jack Garner's enemies are certainly right when they say he has bided his time. Time-biding is rule No. 1 in his lexicon for new Congressmen, to whom he says: "The only way to get anywhere in Congress is to stay there, and let seniority take its course." He grasped time's forelock just once, when he went to the Texas Legislature for the single purpose of carving a new Congressional District, an area about the size of Mississippi along the sparsely-populated U. S. bank of the Rio Grande south and west...
...lexicon of radio broadcasting controversy means trouble. A radio station's stock method of handling contro versial matters is to give each side an equal broadcasting chance, disclaiming any responsibility for what either side says. Pain ful thorn in the radio industry's side has long been Michigan's broadcasting priest, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, whose political preachments are pugnaciously controversial, make many enemies...
...course of his research, Dealer Bury made a lexicon of used-carese...
After it was all over Wellesley went home with its honor vindicated and the Lampoon has its advertising to compensate it for a dull evening. Snorted President Calfee: "They were better at lexicon than looks...
...first place, no one has ever heard of "lexicon", which, we are informed, is a cross between a spelling game and a cross word puzzle. It is rumored that this game, however, is going to be placed on the market by a game company, and that, purely by co-incidence, Lampy has just signed an extensive advertising contract with this same company...