Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps what you mean by "wellborn" is "money-in-the-family-for-the-last-three-or-m o r e-generations." If so, Stimson and Phillips and the King of England and the Duke of Duluth are wellborn, and I'm not. But as far as genes and chromosomes are concerned, I rise to announce that I'm just as well-born as any person you've ever mentioned in your excellent magazine. With the possible exception, of course, of Jesus Christ, and the Virgin Mary...
...manifest that we are confronted with the task of first construing 'and/or,' that befuddling, nameless thing, that Janus-faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of a brain of someone too lazy or too dull to express his precise meaning, or too dull to know what he did mean, now commonly used by lawyers in drafting legal documents, through carelessness or ignorance or as a cunning device to conceal rather than express meaning with view to furthering the interest of their clients. We have ever observed the 'thing' in statutes, in the opinions...
Could the Italian-born Holy Father in his compassion fail to yield to the Italian logic of this deal? In Berlin last week Italian diplomats went ahead in preliminary conversations with the Wilhelmstrasse and the German Bishops over details. From the German viewpoint it could mean the immediate spending, during a hard German winter, of 20,000,000 marks...
Scrooge is a British version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, released for the U. S. Christmas trade by Paramount. A properly mean, frowzy, waspish Scrooge (Sir Seymour Hicks), a fine, spindly-legged Bob Cratchit (Donald Calthrop), a frail, treble-voiced Tiny Tim, and a number of thoroughly capable minor actors move through snowy London streets and warm Early Victorian interiors. Projected with tenderness but without sentimentality are the sequences showing the rousing Christmas of the Cratchit family. Good shot: Cockney harridans cackling over the belongings of the dead Scrooge in the Christmas-yet-to-come...
...mope in the candy shop. Snapped Judge Mack irrelevantly: "You mean, oh, come ye back, ye days of yore, when you could put $3,000,000 in and filch back...