Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persons recalled that all smart sea captains make a practice of announcing or denying the occurrence of sea marvels-such as "worst storms," "first whales of the season" or "largest icebergs"-with intent to cause the names of their ships to appear in public prints. Indulgent pressmen did not mind printing the ships which went a-Gulf-Streaming last week: Homeric & Majestic, Mauretania and Columbus...
...home in which she had visited M. & Mine. Raditch and the Seven Raditches. Mrs. Sinclair Lewis wrote: "He lived in a simple house in Zagreb and loved to entertain friends there, always offering them paprika sandwiches which made tears start while he talked-so rapidly and incoherently that the mind could hardly follow him. He earned a living by keeping a bookshop...
...learned my lesson. I feel that my mind is clear and free and as keen as it ever was. I want it to stay that way. It means more to me than anything the ring can give me in the future...
Normal in every respect were the spoken words of a man from St. Louis, Mo. He sounded exactly like this: "Once there was a young rat who couldn't make up his mind. Whenever another rat asked him if he would like to go out with him, he would answer, 'I don't know...
...simple, tragic tale of a rat named Grip, who could not make up his mind, was a piece of red hot news last week. William Cabell Greet, professor of Phonetics and the History of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, assembled seven men from scattered parts of the U.S. to tell the tale of Grip to wax discs in a recording studio of the Victor Talking Machine Co. The idea: to preserve for posterity accurate specimens of U. S. dialects...