Word: spake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite drink? Old Fashioneds, but three is my limit." Up and spake the boy friend, "Boy, you ought to see her when she has three!" This little statement carried a heavy weight of admiration, approbation, and approval, and was accompanied by sweeping and wayering gestures of the hand...
...embryonic theater created new ideals, the ideals forgotten since the days of Aristotle, ideals realized by Shakespeare alone of all moderns. Goethe, Schiller, Klopstock, Germany had her great century. Then it was over. The bourgeois, the Junkers, the Army, they were the Germany of the nineteenth century. Spake Zarathustra: "Now do we desire--the Superman to live...
...Well, if you knows a Better 'Ole--go to it!" Thus spake Bairnsfather through his character, "Old Bill," in his famous picture "The Better 'Ole," which ran on two continents and called upon 12 famous actors to portray the leading part during the past decade...
...Thus spake Henri Torres, attorney for 72-year-old Amedee Princess de Broglie last week, defending her against efforts by her nephews to block her marriage with dissolute, notorious, 41-year-old Prince Luis Fernando de Bourbon of Spain. One of the complainant nephews is his grace the Due de Brissac. The court, after mature reflection, held that "in French law the right to bring such suit as this appertains only to ancestral relatives, not to descendants...