Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other famed-people who ate there were Voltaire, Bolingbroke, Pope, Congreve. But, perhaps, none were so famed in his day as Samuel Johnson, who was wont to congregate there with his cronies Oliver Goldsmith & Thomas Chatterton. The Doctor always made for the left hand room and sat at a table...
Precisely why the work had ever been stopped was obscured in a fog of misunderstanding. Mr. Warren was under, the impression that a cessation had been ordered by Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, acting for the Carnegie Endowment, one of the chief contributors to the U. S. fund...
The New Yorker, humorous Manhattan weekly, suggests a contest between Mr. Cobb and Will Rogers who does a daily paragraph for the New York Times and other newspapers. With a properly accredited referee, a point score should be kept. Others deemed this unnecessary; Mr. Rogers was "too good," said they...
Moscow approved The Bat. The Tsar saw the show; invited M. Balieff to dinner. Came 1917 and revolution. In 1919 Nikita Balieff was jailed because he "was not consented with their views on poltique." He pointed his fingernails and skulking behind a long square beard escaped to Georgia (southern Russia...
One Chicagoan, ignorant, hurried up to another, brandishing his paper. He pointed at the item with an angry finger.