Word: saith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little matter of languages. Yesterday afternoon, the ex-football star, Carl Pescosolido, better known as Pesky, was serving as starter for the Mussolini-men in the good old Italian style. The sprinters would crouch down on the starting line. "Aposto!" quoth Pesky. The runners wiggle slightly. "Pronto!" he saith. They tense into position. Bang! (International language, you know.) They...
...lives. Having paid and disclosed, they may issue (20 days later) between $70,000,000 and $80,000,000 of securities for which officers, directors and underwriters will be severally and jointly liable, if the voluminous corporate biographies are ever found to represent other than the whole truth. So saith the new Securities Act (TIME. June...
...called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them,'Verily I say unto yon, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury...
Both God and Mammon have at last been served. Sunday their praises were carolled from the pulpit in a sermon whose text was indirectly taken from the Bible. Vanities, saith the preacher, my Vanity of Vanities is now showing in Boston. Speaking as a man of God, Earl Carroll deplored the rigid censorship of his nigh Eve like girls as they appeared in his musical comedy at the Shubert. He created art unappreciated by the staid Bostonian morality as voiced by City Censor Casey. Besides bare legs Mr. Carroll pleaded for more profanity on the stage of today; he wanted...