Word: mortared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hotel Raynaud, Paris, an obus, or mortar shell, surviving from the war of 1870 and used to break coal in the cellar, exploded after 50 years of service, wounding a workman and breaking the plumbing...
Today is the Gentleman's Easter. A month ago his sisters and his cousins and his aunts blossomed forth in the newest creations of millinery. Two weeks later, solemn Seniors donned the strange headgear known unaccountably as mortar-boards, and appeared in the Yard with a dignity that was the envy of underclassmen. Today more man is to have his turn, and he prays for the sunshine as eagerly as a Senior on the day of the Picnic. For today, by common consent and the decree of Harvard Square Haberdashery, Inc., is Straw...
...million dollars, four hundred thousand of which must be raised before the operation of building can progress and this must come from the college students of America. The entire purpose of asking the college man to support the project is one of building sentiment in to the stone and mortar--sentiment which will last longer than the marble itself. It is to be a gift from the students of America to the scholars of Europe...
...which the same painstaking care has been given. But in translation the effect of all this delicate workmanship is irretrievably lost. He who is content to study the classics in translation alone will be content to regard as Doric temples the post-office buildings, with column drums slushed in mortar, which the Government has recently been depositing throughout this country. Again he who is content to study the classics in translation alone may fitly be compared to the man who is satisfied to stand at a distance and throw kisses at a beautiful girl--an agreeable and engrossing occupation...