Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Column 1, page 16. "Wildebeest" is good Boer Dutch for the South African antelope, which the Hottentots called the "gnu," the spelling being as nearly as possible the English equivalent of the Hottentot nasal sound, and which name the Cape English accepted...
...last winter just before and at the moment that Secretary Work had to decide about letting Sinclair exercise his Salt Creek option. Besides the Senate's investigation, the trial of Sinclair for criminal conspiracy was then fresh in Washington's mind. Sinclair's was an extraordinary name indeed, but Dr. Work took no extraordinary precautions. He simply asked the Solicitor of the Interior Department if he thought Sinclair's option was valid. Solicitor Ernest Odell Patterson said he thought...
...ballots will have the names of the three leading candidates for the presidency printed on them and in order to vote a student need only mark his choice and sign the ballot. These signatures will be kept absolutely confidential, and will be used only in order to prevent duplicate voting and the use of fictitious names. There will also be a blank space in which the name of a candidate not printed on the ballot may be inserted. The three men who will have their names on the pasteboards will be Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith and Norman Thomas...
...anti-evolution teaching law is to be voted on there next month. But at Little Rock a day or so ago, Charles Smith, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, agitating against that law, was arrested for violating a city ordinance prohibiting the use of the name of the diety except in "veneration or worship". He was tried on the different charge of disturbing the peace, and fined for distributing printed material "calculated to provoke a breach of the peace". Rather than pay the fine, he is now in jail serving out $26.40 at the rate...
...name is Ophelia, if anyone wants to know. She is a Great Dane. With this the factual matter available about Ophelia, that can be printed, ends. Saturday's playful exposition of a mood, arranged, it is to be supposed, by one or those who love football, the spectacle, ought likewise to end--if he is at all psycho-receptive,--the appearances of Ophelia. The appearance of a valued member of the Harvard staff putting on the dog in a public place, when it is still a month to his annual act at the Yale rally, is not alone an anachronism...