Word: ruction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four words are to be found in Webster's New International Dictionary. "Stramash," meaning "disturbance, ruction, broil," was applied to chronic political contentions in France. "Jimp," which has five meanings, among them (adjectively) "neat, spruce, trim," was applied to the leg of the original of Mark Twain's "Becky Thatcher." "Musnud" is the pillow or cushioned seat sat upon by an oriental potentate; was employed by TIME,-somewhat pedantically- to a university or seat-of-learning. "Kudos," of Greek derivation, means "praise, glory," was used in reference to honorary college degrees.-ED. Hibbard Flayed...
...career at Yale, reported abroad and at Washington for the Philadelphia Public Ledger. His abilities and connections obtained him a position in the U.S. State Department, which sent him to Paris attached to the Peace Commission. In 1919 he went on a special mission to Russia, causing a diplomatic ruction of international proportions when, upon his return, he divulged various Allied attitudes toward the Soviet regime. He left the State Department under something of a cloud. In 1921 he accepted the post of "managing editor" of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Married, he abides in his native city of brotherly...
There followed rumpus, ruction and defiance. Mr. Haney refused to resign. While he was marshaling his explanations for so refusing, observers harked far back into the tangled muddle of Government shipping affairs...
...settle who is and who is not to blame for the great ruction in the Ruhr is a task too great for the average man. And yet the average man is likely to settle it very nicely in his own mind on the second-hand information and bias of his particular daily newspaper. For one who has not been able to travel abroad and study the problems at first hand, this is practically his only means of reaching a conclusion. There is one other way--to gather first hand information from the talk of one who has been able...