Word: nay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hound, bitch and pup, Tray and Nero, the names that men apply to them betray the way that men think of them. No name for a dog carries less than the nasty meaning unconsciously given fragrant words like "stink," nor has any animal gained such universal, nay, such high praise. All who learn to read know the foul loathing for the hound which Shakespeare held, the fear and contempt which the beast inspired in the ancients; those who have no knowledge of the creature's filthy ways have idealized it as did Barrle in Wendy's Nana; those who tread...
...Memorial Day an ill-tempered Senate celebrated by lashing the Sales Tax movement to its knees. Senator Harrison paraded on the floor the list of 55 Senators vowing to vote Nay. Desperately supporters of the tax bill lay about them right & left, seizing upon various excises to help push the total of the bill nearer the balancing figure, among them taxes on stock & bond transfers, limitations on income tax deductions...
...house has risen; it is given Not by one citizen or State; it stands, Given to ns by many hundred hands American and British; nay, each race Upon this earth has helped to build this place. Lovers of Shakespeare everywhere have striven. Every man gave it out of all earth's lands...
...spring night in 1878, the Captain of the "Pinafore" trod his first deck, and the eternal Victorian verities of "yea" and "nay" crumbled at the Captain's "Well, hardly ever." In a year's time, more than a hundred Captain Corcorans were cavorting nightly on as many stages in America alone, and "that infernal nonsense Pinafore" was running in everyone's head. No clergymen dared say "never" of a Sunday morning, for fear of a snicker from the pews; and when a minister intoned "For He Himself hath said it," some rogue would be sure to whisper...
...this and previous years, the correspondents were, I think, quite right in opposing. The first two, that the Army and Harvard have no interests in common, and that Army-Harvard games are not popular, found a straight division of the house, with the CRIMSON voting "Aye", the graduates "Nay". But both stands on these questions are un-provable, and the questions themselves really extraneous. The third point is the CRIMSON's sneering tone, which is, of course, insupportable...