Word: oed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Excerpt: O I'm gonna swing it low, swing it low, I'm gonna swing that golden chariot, swing it low, O swing...
...O'Dwyer held to his attitude of grand disdain. He admitted that a few wire rooms were running, but he had 300 cops chasing bookies and could not in good conscience spare more for the job. The taxpayers' children, he intoned, had to be helped across dangerous streets. As for the slums-the Republican, Morris, had only recently discovered them. "I," said the ex-Cop O'Dwyer, "lived in them...
...discussing national issues, spoke as though the fate of the nation hinged on the mayoralty race. When the Republican New York Sun reported happily that a big bookie 'named Frank Erickson had attended a beefsteak dinner given in honor of the mayor and Democratic Senatorial Candidate Herbert Lehman, O'Dwyer had a strange & wonderful answer. "Lehman," he said indignantly, "has been framed...
Managing Editor Russell McGrath of the conservative, successful Seattle Times (circ. 208,442) wound up his instructions to Reporter Edwin O. Guthman. Leaning across the desk in his office, McGrath told Guthman: "The courts have broken down. Now it's our job to find out the truth...
...name of August Strindberg means anything at all to the average theatergoer, it usually means a Swedish playwright who came along after Ibsen and who has since been praised by such dramatists as Shaw, O'Neill, and Thornton Wilder, who regard him as one of their teachers. Indeed, the position of Strindberg seems to have been set at half-way between Ibsen and O'Neill in the field of modern, naturalistic drama; and since the former spells death at the box-office and the latter is a commercial risk, Strindberg, by association, has been deprived of his place...