Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dramatic critics, like oldtime court jesters, have more than poet's license. The monarch public, easy to amuse, hard to offend, suffers them gladly. Avowedly criticizing plays, they sometimes overindulge in gossip, in personalities. Some days they go too far. Manhattan has its suave George Jean Nathan. London has emaciated Hannen Swaffer...
...Author. Although Red Likker may sell well, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb is no booklegger. Cautious not to offend Cobb-clients, he leaves the great Prohibition novel a thing yet to be written. But Mr. Cobb in action is less cautious than Novelist Cobb. Says he, lately elected Chairman of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment...
...subject to the sovereignty of the State but the Pontiff himself, the supreme authority of the Church. ... If there were the least animosity and bitterness in our soul we would say that these not infrequent expressions of no renunciation, of no concession from the State to the Church offend...
...suggest that in future you use single, double, triple and so on dashes according to the number of letters in the words deleted. Thus if one of your correspondents referred to some person as a - - - - -- it would offend no one, and at the same time members of the Ancient & Honorable Order of Occasional Swearers could figure it out and rest assured that the writer is a brother and not some rank outsider in Russian, Chinese or Sanskrit...
...Springs, S. Dak., one Lloyd Linton, 33, father of four, was suddenly moved to a paroxysm of religious fervor while standing in his brother's sawmill. "If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off," cried Linton's thoughts. Later Linton explained: "So I cut it off and prayed to God not to let it bleed much. It didn't." Handless Linton did not state how his hand had offended...