Word: sobriquet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dentists found the President in a better mood, they would have been interested, when he smiled, in his teeth. On the left side the upper molars are worn down, presumably by chewing pipes and cigars, to a peculiar slant which helped earn him his campaign sobriquet of "Beaver...
...Kept Woman Authoress Delmar again looks at Bronx domesticity, makes the colloquial-trivial often seem tragic. The story concerns one Lillian who preferred the sobriquet "kept woman" to the meaningless "wife." Her preference undoubtedly stemmed from the fact that her Keeper Hubert had a frigid, wealthy spouse who typified none of the connubial felicities. But Hubert feared that a divorce would cost him the lovely suburban retreat which Mrs. Hubert had financed, so he cherished Lillian in a Bronx apartment on $15,000 acquired by selling his pitiful business. A series of bibulous, wretched parties fast depleted the finances...
...affiliated high school are the next educational step after Worcester's parochial schools. Its greatest singularity is its rule that no student may come to Assumption unless he speaks fluently both French and English. Classes are conducted either in French or English. Thus Assumption has won the sobriquet of "only French college in the U. S." It was in Nimes, France, one solemn morning in 1851, that the first Augustinians of the Assumption took their public vows. The vigorous doubt of Voltaire and the science of Diderot had troubled Catholic France. The Assumptionist Fathers swore to combat irreligion...
...against it, Marry accepted from the friendly Jew a dull clerical job at the County building. What with one thing and another, he figured that Abe Wise was sobriquet for Gun-Man Steve Gold-Steve Gold of newspaper extras, Steve Gold, spectacular murderer, hounded by rival bootleg gangs. But just as he, Marry, a small town dreamer and poet, was about to be of considerable service to this curious fascinating character, Steve Gold was shot down from a passing sedan. Simultaneously Marry lost his County Cook...
...well as a Lion; he belongs to half the clubs in the state and is vice commander of his post of the American Legion. When Milwaukee plans a welcome, as to an aviator, Charles Younggreen superintends it with pride and efficiency; "Milwaukee's Grover Whalen" is a sobriquet of which he is proud. His house is a show place; his wife is a charming woman; he plays bad golf very well; he has lots of money and lots...