Word: richer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both with a zest that makes his pages effervesce 30 years after their subjects were topical. Mencken, whatever the college boys may have thought a quarter-century ago, was no great thinker; he was a man of stout prejudices, with a gift and vocabulary for iconoclastic expression even richer than Mark Twain's. In the word's true sense he was, like Thoreau, a radical. But he was also a political conservative, to the dismay of the assorted pinks and reds who once thrilled to his lambastings of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, but were forced to turn...
...diction grew richer as he began examining documents handed him by Murphy (a move which Murphy evidently made to prevent any implication that Wadleigh, not Hiss, might have stolen the pumpkin papers from the State Department files). The witness said he had never seen them before. Of one, he said: -'. . . it is a sufficiently rich fountain . . . an unusually rich fountain that I would have been interested in had I seen...
...days after the Erfdeel test, the South African Press Association flashed still more exciting news. A test bore on another farm near Erfdeel had reportedly assayed out even richer. At this, Jo'burg's frantic speculators ran up the Free State Gold Areas shares to a high of $11.28-and Promoter Milne's paper profits were estimated at somewhere between $8 million and $20 million...
...that the future plays will be interesting selections (not all Shakespeare, of course) and that Brattle Hall will play a still larger, if unofficial, part in the undergraduate life here. It may even be that, as time goes on, the present student body will grow to realize how much richer college was made for it by these upstart war veterans...
Sleuth Root, though $25 richer, is still puzzled as to what the correct solution is. It appears as if either there is no true answer, or the Herald just isn't telling...