Word: named
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paragraph 4 of the article headed "Hoodlum," you use the language "Cicero, the Chicago suburb whose name has been notorious ever since...
...unfortunate and long-suffering Mickey in Brazil is known (believe it or not) by the polysyllabic and extraordinarily clumsy name of Camondongo Mickey. Try it on Carmen, and see if she does not react...
...Public is always an interesting study. This is especially true where bands are concerned. Of the numerous name bands which are in demand, all are big favorites in certain sections of the country. Yet, they all vary in style and size. Some have novelty features that catch on, and others have music "fascinate," still others have simplicity that sells, and there are those whose showmanship is "the magnetic power;" nevertheless they are all box office attractions. Sometimes we wonder if really preparing music in the pure sense is worth the trouble because in many places our audiences seem to turn...
...setting forth his proposal for new and better graduate living arrangements, Dean Landis is in fact if not in name proposing an extension of the House Plan idea. For Mr. Landis stresses that the principal need of graduate housing is not merely finer buildings, but surroundings whose "atmosphere stimulates the exchange of ideas and experiences" among student residents. This Graduate House Plan suggestion is an interesting and logical one, which grows in importance when coupled with an apparently practical plan for raising the necessary money...
...ever heard him seriously explain why), Lincoln arrived in Washington "like a thief in the night," with one companion, his friends having sent him on ahead to escape a mob in Baltimore. At Columbus on the way he had said in a curious, trance-like speech: "Without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country...