Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caxton's article, it appears, was first ordered and then rejected as too frank by the editor of another and more right-minded, publication. It good naturedly, but without palliation, stud- ies the activities of our twentieth century pensioners. One understands why the editor of a national magazine might reject It--but, if one has been a soldier, one realizes that Mr. Caxton speaks with authority. It is time that reminiscences of this sort were circulated, as it is to the Advocate's credit, and the discredit of American journalism at large, that what is the first of a series...
...train. Salesman Smith is selling seats in his car, and advertises the added attraction of a rack for the hip flash on the side of the bench to obviate the necessity of having to stoop down to get it from under the bench; otherwise, business might as well ride in the Republican car. It doesn't make much difference anyway...
Eager for classification, students sought a word which might fit such potent industrialists. They shelved master, titan, king, as painfully obvious. They considered ponderous recondite synonyms for potentate, but at length rejected hospodar, beglerbeg and three-tailed bashaw as offensively obscure. They hit happily on the brief but sonorous Tycoon...
Helen Wills recently set the Los Angeles Tennis Club clucking and fussing. They invited her to play at their tournament and in expectation had "some lovely silver" engraved with her name. She refused to attend, as player or spectator. Reason: blisters on her feet, which her mother feared might cause osteomyelitis (inflammation of the bone...
John Pierpont Morgan might well have said last week: "A reckless liar named Bernard F. Champayne, posing as my grandson, obtained $15,000 from Mrs. B. P. Fields of Ginter Park near Richmond, Va., and became engaged to her daughter. Liar Champayne was sentenced last week to serve ten years in a common jail...