Word: loree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once rid of its skin, the reptile will resume its menu of dead goldfish, which its Sophomore master wheedles from the ten-cent store, and will resume its role as Exhibit A in Mr. Folk's lectures on snake-lore...
...than most of her contemporaries, Mme Schiaparelli is the one to whom the word "genius" is applied most often. Even to her intimate friends she remains an enigma. Her great-great-grandmother was an Egyptian. Her Italian father was dean of the University of Rome, a professor of oriental lore, an authority on Sanskrit and old coins. Her uncle, Astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli. discovered the canals on Mars. Elsa Schiaparelli was born in Rome, educated in Switzerland and England where she married a Polish gentleman and moved to New York. There she lived on 9th Street, worked for the cinema...
Shocked, horrified, scandalized and enraged were readers of Labor Action, organ of the American Workers' Party, to find the foregoing quotation in their paper last month. It appeared in a column "In the Unions," written by a brawny, pipe-smoking youth named Karl Lore, 24, whose father, Ludwig Lore, writes "Behind the Cables" in the New York Post...
...readers who turned to current issues of American Machinist for the original advertisement failed to find it. Asked where he got it last week, Columnist Lore explained that he had quoted it from an editorial column in the Kern County Union Labor Journal, edited in Bakersfield, Calif, by one Wallace Watson. Editor Watson said he had picked up the text of the advertisement from a column in the April issue of the New Leader written by Socialist Norman Thomas...
What Columnist Lore, Editor Watson, Columnist Thomas and Socialist Clark did not know, or deliberately failed to mention, was that the explosive shell advertisement had appeared in American Machinist just once-on May 6, 1915. Its publication then caused a great popular outcry which aroused the U. S. State Department and caused Secretary of Commerce Redfield to deal a stinging rebuke to American Machinist. Few months ago it was reprinted, in its true historical seating, in the book Merchants of Death by Engelbrecht & Hanighen (TIME...