Word: licked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battle of Einstein is raging on all fronts more fiercely than ever. Scarcely had Dr. William Wallace Campbell, director of the Lick Observatory, announced that photographs taken by the Crocker expedition at Wallal, on the northwest coast of Australia, during the solar eclipse of last September, confirmed the predictions of Einstein's theory of relativity as to the bending of star rays out of their normal paths by the sun's influence, when Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, U. S. N., astronomer at the Mare Island Navy Yard, issued a statement regretting Dr. Campbell's action...
...Chicago and French Lick Springs...
Although the scheme brings joy to the Puritans, it has in it some note of gladness for the Cavaliers. The smut-hound may well lick his lips in anticipation; at last his labors of search are ended. With the new committee to help him he no longer has to read one hundred pages of "nice" literature to find one that is "not so nice." Possessed of one of the Committee's reports, he has his filth carefully listed with a specific statement as to why each book should not lie on the parlor table; he has but to select...
...Caughey Jr. '25, F. G. Cleveland '25, Gardner Cowles Jr. '25, W. E. Crosby Jr. '24, Russell Dewart '24, Sterling Dow '25, J. R. Flather '23, Jefferson Fletcher '25, G. T. Goodspeed '25, J. P. Hubbard '25, R. S. Hubbard Jr. '24, G. B. Johnson '25, S. W. Lick 3E.S., J. S. Littell '24, T. G. Littell '24, L. T. Lloyd '23, R. T. Loring Jr. '24, Raoul Pantaleoni '24, L. L. Perkins '24, O. M. Rice '25, G. D. Royer Jr. '24, F. A. O. Schwarz '24, R. H. Sears '24, A. C. Surbest Jr. '23, F. G. Wale...
Parody is at once one of the easiest and one of the most difficult forms of literary performance. It is an old, old business. As old, let us say, as the impulse to destroy your fellow caveman, whom you could not lick on the physical merits, by withdrawing to a safe distance and mimicking his personal mannerisms and tone of voice, or exaggerating in a drawing on a cliff-face the length of his nose or the style of his whiskers...