Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because Knickerbocker Village is also Manhattan's first experiment in government-financed, low-cost housing, RFC's Chairman Jesse H. Jones, East-Sider Alfred E. Smith, many a minor wig gathered in its banner-decked playground to mark the day. Said Al Smith: "I was tempted to swap the Empire State Building." Chairman Jones thumped the tub of slum clearance. Informed that the first of the two units was already 95% rented, while the second unit (to be opened Dec. 1) was 50% rented, he waved an expansive hand at the holiday bunting, declared: "I know of no ... safer investment...
...from the witness stand last week, was that Freda had slipped while stepping from the dock into a rowboat, had cracked her head on the boat. Fearing she was dead, he hit her with his blackjack, he said, because "it occurred to me that if there were only some mark on Freda's body it would look like an accident and leave...
Foreign exchange was mysterious business even when the dollar was a dollar and the mark a mark. Today, what with the sum total of the world's defaults, devaluations, regulations, restrictions, registrations, quotas, permits, impounded balances, standstill agreements, stabilization funds or the lack of them, money-changing is a nightmare. Foreign exchange traders are probably the coolest, shrewdest, most tireless and nimble-witted crew in the world, but the Paris correspondent of the New York Times last week declared: "The extraordinarily complicated character of the present situation seems to have discouraged even the most hardened speculators...
Author Bradford's Negro dialect has an authentic ring but is stamped with his own mark. In almost every book he introduces some memorable tag of nigger-talk. In Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun it was: "Soap an' water, country boy"- deep South for Broadway's "Oh, yeah?" In Let the Band Play Dixie it is the almost untranslatable "and de doctor can't do me no good"-an expression denoting joyful determination, usually in the direction of gin or gals. For fittingly strong words to express astonishment: "Well, do, my Redeemer!"* Sample...
...high mark for work done in section meetings is often interpreted by both the leader and the student to mean that an A will be given the man who takes the most active part in the discussion. It is, however, almost a rule that the better men will not bother to speak parrot-like what they have read during the week because they are bored and realize that the other members of the section should have read the same thing. On the other hand, a poor man will not expose his difficulties because his misunderstanding will probably be the cause...