Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start the ball rolling I suggest Misona, adjectival forms Misonan and Misonian. This is suggested by the Mississippi and Missouri, our two greatest rivers, and Arizona, which symbolizes our rich mountains and unique and fertile deserts. I do not doubt that better linguists than I can suggest better names...
Last week the sesquicentennial was marked by two more events: 1) rich Bibliophile A. S. W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia revealed that he had obtained, for an undisclosed sum from an undisclosed source, the original draft of the Bill of Rights; 2) Massachusetts got around at last to ratifying it.* Explained Governor Saltonstall as he signed in the presence of uniformed cadets: his State's delay was due to the liberty-loving fathers of Massachusetts having sought to protect the people's rights by "even more inclusive definitions...
...tell me that Harvard can't afford to pay the $18 we have asked for; it is one of the richest organizations in the country. I think they'll give us a raise because they're getting scared that they'll lose rich endowments because of their anti-labor policy...
...inventor, one Carl Muench, next devised a similar board made out of bagasse, the fibrous residue of chewed-up sugarcane, named it Celotex and began making it commercially in 1921. By 1929 annual sales of their brown insulating board had reached $1,479,000 and President Dahlberg was rich...
...York World-Telegram appeared the following advertisement: "Washington's birthday is more than toy hatchets and silver dollar tossing. . . . We can hang our flags in a proud land, rich and free. We should hang out a large flag on every proper occasion. A large flag to fit a large country. America is an expansive country. Wanamaker's is an expansive store. Our flags are inexpansive...