Word: palling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pall Mall Gazette is dead. It was " a paper written by gentlemen for gentlemen." Among its editors were the late John Morley and Lord Milner. George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Matthew Arnold, R. L. Stevenson had contributed. Was the Gazette too good for its public...
...Pall Mall Gazette: "When once you pass a silly law like prohibition you have to go on being silly all the time...
...that Coue and King Tut-ankh Amen have begun to pall on the readers of our popular dailies, the journalists are feeling the need of a new sensation to fill their papers with copy and their dinner pails with sandwiches. Fortunately, for them, the obliging American athletes contributed materially to Oxford's victories on Saturday, both in track and crew; and the Sunday sporting pages rang with the "glad news" of American supremacy, while editorials sounded serious warnings of "this dangerous American Imperialism". The cause of all this turmoil was the presence of two Americans in the Oxford shell...
...corn are hung up about the room to dry. In the first act on a late September afternoon in 1820, before the marriage of Peetcha, Case Steenkoop's son; everything is in disorder. There are bits of dingy rag carpet on the floor; a single harness, cider jug, horse pall, and other things have been left carelessly about the room. By the second act, five years later, a woman has entered the house, the room is much neater, and a bright carpet has replaced the rags on the floor...
...Lanman, professor of Sanskrit in the University, and Correspondent de I'Acedmie des Inscription et Belles-Lettres de I'Institutde France. The new volumes are called "Buddhist Legends", and are translations by Dr. E. W. Burlingame of a story-book written in the sacred language of Buddhism, the Pall, in Ceylon, 450 A. D. They give a vivid picture of ancient monastic life in India; a direct counterpart of the Legends of the Christian Saints...