Word: originally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Welcome. Premier Baldwin opened the Imperial Conference with an allusion to its origin in the assembly of Dominion Premiers at London in 1887 to attend the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. "The present Imperial Conference," he continued, "must seek to discover how the Dominions may be yet more closely knit to the mother country...
Simultaneously the U. S. Department of Commerce announced and deplored last week that no less than seven other paramount commodities imported by the U. S. to a total volume of one billion dollars yearly are similarly being restricted in the countries of origin: coffee, potash, mercury, long staple cotton, iodine, nitrates, and sisal hemp...
...Coquetry' and 'gourmandise' . . . are both of French origin. . . . Gourmandise has no name except in French...
...practice of holding political parades of students had its origin in 1868 in the Presidential campaign of Seymour and Grant, when the procession was decidedly bibulous. For several years the tone of the hilarity attendant upon the rallies grew more objectionable, until in 1872, the Faculty decreed that no student should take part. Since that time the authorities have relented and have had little cause to criticise; the parades of today while enthusiastically attended, are law-abiding...
...that will always remind me of last summer's tour are 'mediaeval troubadours' and 'chicken salad'. At every village we visited, we were hailed by the local literati as 'mediaeval troubadours'. Every country newspaper mentioned us as the 'troubadours returned' or a 'refreshing voice from the past'. Our mediaeval origin was dinned into us from Maine to New York...