Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Bund leaders in more than 60 camps (chiefly near New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco) do not actually plot a revolution, but plan "to wrest control from the Communist-Jews when they start their revolution.'' The Times's investigators said that each Bund post has its select uniformed force "drilled in the goose step and . . . ready for any emergency," and that the policies of the Bund weeklies duplicate those of the Hitler-controlled press. No direct evidence connected the Bund with the German Government but Editor Ruppel got a rise out of old Senator...
...leave it, play it as a sort of game in which every one can win by giving himself a higher rating than he gives to his contemporaries. Hence among best sellers not of a year but of a generation, the Boston Cooking School Cook Book and Emily Post's Etiquette rate close to the Bible. According to the modest estimate of its publishers, Funk & Wagnalls, since its first printing in 1922, Etiquette has sold "many more than 500,000 copies." Last week this 15-year-old youngster among best sellers came from the presses in its first completely revised...
Like Samuel Johnson, the first great English lexicographer, Emily Post, the first great lexicographer of U. S. manners, had the opportunity of imposing many of her personal prejudices as rules for contemporary and future generations to follow. Emily Bruce Price Post-who 30-odd years ago married and divorced Edwin Main Post, Manhattan banker and socialite-was but a comely divorcée somewhat in need of cash, a woman whose horizon was largely bounded by Newport and Park Avenue when she unwittingly wrote a book which was to make her fame and fortune. Today...
...Divorcée Post's opinion on divorce 30 years after: "The epidemic of divorce which has been raging in this country for the past 10 or 15 years must be rated with floods, dust-storms, tornadoes and other catastrophes...
...Corn-on-the-cob may now be eaten (neatly) at a formal dinner, an entire ear in both hands. Cigarets at the dinner table are all right but Mrs. Post still does not approve...