Word: lieu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 18 issue on p. 5 I first found something that grated against my sense of propriety. I have noticed it several times since. I refer to your use of the sign "&" in lieu of the word "and." This would be all right if you were referring to the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., but when you speak of "President & Mrs. Coolidge" or "Senator & Mrs. Norbeck," it reminds me of Ring Lardner's pseudo-ignorant style which seems entirely out of place in TIME...
According to English tradition, polo also originated from the same maternal cat. Unlike hockey, however, the young gentlemen mounted horses instead of skates, and developed their game on the turf in lieu...
...Duty. The Associated Press reported that a U. S. correspondent at Moscow was recently charged $66 duty on six 25c tubes of U. S. tooth paste sent him by a Manhattan friend. Urbane, he presented the tooth paste to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in lieu of paying the duty...
...revised statutes of the U. S. the following law which makes it a crime to "make, issue, circulate or pay out any note, check, memorandum, token or other obligation for a sum less than $1 intended to circulate as money or to be received in lieu of lawful money of the United States...
...American letters would consist in a return to character and an abandonment of the continuous satirical description of American mudnats and tenement houses. Perhaps American life might be better if just that were done. Instead of this continued Menchenistic harping upon the single string of defects of m lieu there might be the stronger tone of accomplished character development...