Word: pea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...call Mr. Powers the buffoon) rushes through his sentences with rapidity which we may only explain by assuming that he knows their worthlessness and superfluity. There used to be a tradition of a certain American terseness and nervous directness in speech. It was a silly exaggeration but the pea dulum has swung back...
...Reverend Francis Greenwood Pea-body '69, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus, will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel this morning and every morning this week at 8.45 o'clock...
...must change its hue; the roses must reform; the Titian-locked must consult a dyer; the robin must buy a new vest; we must learn to blush a pea green. Color is being legislated out of existence...