Word: loned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conservative. The lone star upon the Conservative Party's horizon is ex-Cabinet Minister Winston Spencer Churchill, who is now a full-fledged Conservative. It was said that never before has the Party been so short of able leaders. Ex-Premier Stanley Baldwin is, however, the de jure leader of the Party, although the signs and portent were that "Winnie" was fast becoming the de facto leader...
...sure those headquarters will cost the Democrats many votes. The great empty anteroom, about 75 ft. long by 25 ft. wide, with only one lone boy at the entrance, one telephone operator and never more than one visitor waiting on a sofa, has the same moral effect as staging a mass meeting of six persons in Madison Square Garden...
Kelley was a lone star for the Vermonters. The first four of this teammates across the line placed as follows: Carlson, tenth: Robinson, eleventh: Golnick, twelfth: and Brookins, fifteenth. Only the first five men to finish for each team figure in the scoring...
...which, let us add, there is some slight reason. Two or more summer months of idleness, a flood of special deliveries and telegrams the week before college opens, a few haphazard, pointless contributions by editors whose thoughts are at the time still waiting for the sunrise, and the lone editor who has returned to Cambridge, duty-bound and royally peevish, scrambles the horrible collection together, shouts to the printer, falls into bed, and another "Freshman number" looks the Square in the eye. That is the probable truth...
...editors conspicuous in their communities as editors? William Allen White [Emporia, Kan.] is the shining example. In Columbus, Georgia, Julian Harris, struggling bravely with his Enquirer-Sun, bids fair to 'become for the South what 'Bill' White is for the prairies. . . . On the coast there is Fremont Older, lone survivor of a bygone epoch, who by virtue of his character, repute and personal following maintains an exceptional autonomy under Hearst ownership. There are the Scripps-Howard papers, a notable chain of twenty-six dailies in large and medium-sized cities, where the central editorial control is the slightest...