Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Randolph Hearst: "In ankle-length bloomers of white chiffon embroidered with silver, diamond-studded feather headdress, a bodice of brilliants with emerald and diamond shoulder-straps, anklets of diamonds and a sweeping Oriental train, I last week descended a golden staircase in the Bath and Tennis Club, Palm Beach, Fla. Up leaped one Rafaelo Diaz,* in white satin coat and silver trousers, from a throne surrounded by dancing girls. He embraced me and sang an aria from La Gioconda. It was a pageant during a Persian ball which newsgatherers reported as 'most brilliant of the season...
...course the Harvard Professor may soon be lecturing with amplifiers from his Morris Chair, or even while sunning himself with ex-Mayor Hylan on the Palm Beach sands. Fluency might be enhanced by a little Prince Albert in a Briar Pipe and by evading the facing of dreary rows of bland, apathetic faces. If the Professor be indisposed, each student may put on the record marked Hypnosis--Extra Deep--and have his roommate follow it with English 13 for Deep Sleepers--etc. The possibilities are obviously limitless...
...creed and dogma that will reach its flood on April 17 this year.* Roman Catholics and the more ritualistic Protestant denominations (Episcopal, Lutheran, Reformed), however, not content with such informality, celebrate Ash Wednesday as their beginning, the Roman Catholics having their foreheads marked crosswise with the ashes of palms used on Palm Sunday of the previous year. Then for 40 days of Lent-a Teutonic word originally meaning spring-they turn their thoughts with especial pains towards their religion...
...Thomas harbor in the Virgin Islands, a dove, flying aimlessly far from land, alit on the deck. Wireless Operator William D. Collins occupied his idle hours cooing, chirruping, making enticing gestures with his fingers. The dove's hunger overcame its distrust when the man offered crumbs in his palm. The man, thinking the small creature loved him, felt benevolent, like...
...heads the roster of Graduate School teams, and is well on its way to the championship with six victories and no defeats. Composed of former inter-collegiate stars including Criss of Wittenberg College, Palm of Michigan State, Morrison of Clark, Correa of Princeton and Malloy of Swarthmore, it has easily disposed of the other league teams...