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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Persons of fashion use a strange adjective for the things which they consider as belonging properly to their environment; such things they call "smart." Less polished people use an adjective which is far more descriptive of smart things: they use the word "ritzy." The word is from the proper noun, Ritz; Ritz is the name of the smartest chain of hotels in the world...
...paper, which might be rolled compactly. And that led to a new kind of camera, the Kodak (1888). Mr. Eastman invented the name by fiddling with a batch of separate letters until he put together a group that looked alluring and sounded sensible. The word is now a common noun, verb and radical in European languages. It appears in standard dictionaries...
...noun "virgin" is not one which gentlemen or ladies employ, in any other than a religious connection. I shall inquire from my attorneys whether its use in the letters to which I refer is or is not libelous. You may rest assured that my married or unmarried state, as the case may be, is not a subject upon which I shall stoop to satisfy curious vulgarians...
...Newsstand-buyer Spahling's meaning is obscure but presumably "hister," pronounced with the "i" long, means "hoister" or "beer-hoister," slang noun.-ED. † The print order of this issue is 154,000 copies...
...inside page. But last week, in a two column story about the Yale-Harvard boat-race that began on the front page of the Herald-Tribune, Grantland Rice, star writer (believed to have originated the phrase, "Now the goalposts loomed upon the deepening shadow . . .") set a record. As a noun and in adjectival form, he used the word "rhythm" sixteen times, as follows: Spurts Wail Before Elis Rhythmic Beat . . . the flawless rhythm of Ed Leader. . . Yale's rhythmic beat. . . . blessed with the finer rhythm and ... It was all rhythm . . . Rhythm that Milton and Byron might have . . . lesson in rhythm...