Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heflin: "It is unworthy of you to say that...
Such blarney seemed innocuous but Commonwealth Official Cosgrave showed poor taste when he went on to praise one who notoriously slings verbal garbage at the commonwealth. Said Mr. Cosgrave: "I also want to say a word about that great and grossly libeled man, the Mayor of Chicago. If I were not a man of the world and experienced in politics I would have expected to meet a tough and a roughneck. Instead I was received and honored by a great big, kindly, genial, American, so bubbling over with plans for the betterment of his city that he talked about hardly...
...upon church unity at the annual meeting of the Church Women's League for Patriotic Service in the Manhattan home of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, social bigwig. Said Bishop Manning: "We are living in very interesting times. . . . Great movements are going on all about us. ... I want to say that I hope no one will feel in the least discouraged or doubtful as to the progress of the movement [for union] on account of any pronouncement that may come from anywhere, even though it might seem unfortunate at the moment...
Mirrors. What novelists and playwrights, to say nothing of the rocking-chair crowd, owe to the younger generation for material will never be accurately computed. There seems always to be just one more complaint to be voiced. This time it is a smart suburban district festering from the flask infection on its young men's hips. These young people kiss each other a good deal. For these things they would be presumably damned were it not for one among them who was pure. She shows the path to sobriety, sweetness, light. A little child shall lead them...
Hidden somewhere in the dark reaches of the Bostoa Opera House (tradition and the sentimentalists say it is the second balcony but occasionally a true aesthete slips unbeknownst into the orchestra) are those who have come really to appreciate and to enjoy the sonorous grandeurs of the opera. For them the occasion is more than a display of what adorns the better vertebrae. And, contrary to fiction, an ability to eat spaghetti and bellow bravo is not a requisite for inclusion in the intelligentsia...