Word: sores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inter-collegiate athletics subjects of lesser weight. On these, the thesis runs, the revolt wastes its strength before touching the momentous concerns of the hour. While stupidity in political management and inefficiency in governmental administration remain flagrant, the Times would advise students to fix their attention on the sore spots of the nation...
Later in the week she was scheduled to sing in Brooklyn. She thought of the 2,000 people who had bought their tickets. She had a foot and ankle so badly swollen that she could not get on her shoe, so sore that she could not" bear any of her weight on them...
Henry John was religious. For more than 20 years he was superintendent of a Methodist Sunday School, although he had been brought up a strict Lutheran. His parents wanted him to become a minister and this religious attitude he kept throughout his life. How sore his heart when word was brought to him that smart-Alex Pittsburgh saloonkeepers had wanged out a ribald ditty at his expense. Nigger-prancers,* bum- mers, street sheiks, tenderloin riff-raff were chanting all over Pittsburgh, all over...
...damaging libel but life is too short to chase libels" (TIME, Jan. 25). Mr. Bigelow however continues in full cry after Mr. Wells' allegedly libelous retort to his allegedly libelous statement. Said he as a parting shot to the reporters last week, "Poor Wells! He is very sore; that's all. He lost his temper and he has got to apologize...
...earliest and most successful advertising campaigns ever conducted. Another clever publicist once started every one saying, "Have you a little fairy in your home?" And once upon a time, the pinnacle of witty suggestion could be scaled by pointing at a pretty girl, a dashing yacht or a sore throat and ejaculating, "Ask the man who owns...