Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every foreigner must enter Italy under a religious spell...
Much of the success of all these efforts depends, of course, on the weather this winter. A severe cold spell will be a boon for makers of anti-freeze mixture...
Readers of the New York Daily News were intrigued last Saturday morning by a headline. Those who were able to spell out the glaring slur read it aloud to their friends and chuckled; it was a good line, the sort of thing that makes the News their favorite newspaper. They bent to scrutinize the photograph that was printed below- a picture of the funeral of the Queen Mother, Alexandra. There were King George and the Prince of Wales stalking with solemn strides; there were King Christian of Denmark in a plumed hat, the King of Norway and the King...
...serious thinkers the announcement was saddening. It meant that throughout the realms of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace the year has brought no overwhelming and secure accomplishment. Meanwhile many a semiliterate inquired, "Why do them Swedes spell 'noble' 'n-o-b-e-l'?"; and many a citizen of ripe culture wondered just who Alfred Bernhard Nobel really was, and exactly how he had occupied himself in amassing the thirty million Swedish kroner ($9,000,000) with which he endowed the Nobel Foundation...
...cheer-leaders has died away. Teams have disbanded and broken training. Players are once more men and fellow students. And as the fever passes, the delirium ends, and normal sanity returns. Now in cool and balanced judgment we can look at football and see it as it is. The spell is broken...