Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wide reputation as a ban vivant rests largely upon the gusto with which, in enumerating his postprandial wants, he demanded, first of all, his pipe. The bowl, the fiddlers three were afterthoughts. Such persons belong to the Old Jimmy-Pipe Club, a somewhat fatuous association fostered chiefly by columnists, mass advertisers and female novelists desirous of articulating Big He-Men; for, since Cole's day, tobacco has sunk to a low place in literature. The cigar usually proceeds from the stained teeth and loose lips of Mammon. The cigaret has become a stock in- gredient of feminism and neurasthenia...
...first Sunday in Lent, mass was celebrated before great crowds. At the church steps, Patriarch Joaquín shook thousands of Mexicans by the hand, gave the needy alms, told all to "go home and tell your friends you now belong to the Holy Apostolic Catholic Church of Mexico." Some did. There was fighting for churches in Chilpancingo, Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Morelia, Tabasco. In some places, Government troops defended the Roman Catholics in the possession of their churches; in others, good Catholic (Roman) laymen came stoutly to the defense...
...John A. Spencer of Revere, Mass., was a mill-hand in a Maine lumber camp. He worked with the night shift and part of his job was to keep the boiler simmering. The boiler had a rounded clean-out door; and when John heaped up a hot fire, this door would go Crick! outward, convex like a bubble. When the fire cooled down, Crack! would go the boiler door, back inward, concave like a saucer...
Presidents read with interest. Professors hemmed, hawed, mentally scrutinized their departmental colleagues. Undergraduates frowned loyally. Alumni wondered. The headline they were all looking at said: VOTE HARVARD FIRST IN NINE DEPARTMENTS. The despatch was from Cambridge, Mass., chiefly quotation from the Harvard undergraduate newspaper. President Raymond M. Hughes of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) had, it seemed, felt the need of an "authoritative rating of the universities of the country" by subjects commonly taught. He had prepared a list of 20 subjects and mailed it to "several hundred scholars and scientists" of the U. S., asking each to vote...
TIME, Springfield, Mass. New York, N. Y. Apr. 1, 1925. Gentlemen: One of our friends has just told us that a letter in TIME of a recent date says that the word "Airedale," meaning a kind of terrier, is not in Webster. Although we have a copy of TIME every week, we didn't happen to see this letter; but we hope that you will tell your correspondent that "Airedale" is in your copy of Webster, which, of course, is a genunine Webster's New International. G. & C. MERRIAM...