Word: profferred
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...There is about as much chance of the Solid South going Republican in 1944 as of Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune turning New Dealer. I hereby proffer and promise to swim from Key West to Cuba, and tow a loaded barge in the bargain, if so many as three states of the South go Republican next year...
...presented his credentials to Franklin Roosevelt, met the Army's Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and the Navy's COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King. He set up headquarters in a modest brick house on Embassy Row, covered its walls with maps, got ready to proffer his precious information on the war in the East...
Gingerbread very early ceased to be a monopoly of the nobles. Even the poorest citizen of ancient Rome somehow found it within his means to proffer a spicy gift to the gods. In ancient Greece, where bread-baking was a fine art, the city of Rhodes was as famous for its gingerbread as it was for its harbor-bestriding Colossus. Part of the loot that the roving Crusaders carried home was culinary lore of the East, including the recipe for gingerbread. As spices came to be a more common property, the great mass of the people took gingerbread...
...audience was deceived as to their sex for a long time. When they learned the truth there was much complaining on all sides, a typical remark being, "Aw gee, we didn't think it was them kind of blondes." One poor confused selectee even went so far as to proffer a bouquet of flowers to the leading "lady," Dick Whittemore...
...next time you go to a sedate dinner party in old Back Bay, don't be surprised if that immaculate young man begins to proffer whispered comments on your dirty collar. He may even inform you of the dandruff on your dinner jacket. Take a good look at him before you get too embarrassed...