Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spell. A lower-middle-class family washes its dirty linen in public -a fine piece of domestic realism, knowingly directed by Daniel Mann, feelingly played by Shirley Booth and Anthony Quinn (TIME, June...
CHRIST walked the earth as a human being; yet for 13 centuries thereafter he was painted as a weightless, spiritual being, more in his divine aspect than in his human one. Then Giotto di Bondone, a Tuscan farmer's boy, broke the spell. He changed the course of art by proving that spirit and flesh, holiness and reality, could be pictured together as one image...
...reasons comes to the same unanswering answer. A few days before he died, the greatest of modern poets, William Butler Yeats, wrote to a friend that he had found what, all his life, he had been looking for. But when, in that letter, he went on to spell his answer out in words, it was not an answer made of words: it was an answer made of life: 'When I try to put it all into a phrase I say, "Man can embody truth but he cannot know...
...speling ov dhe Inglish langwij, inventor ov a sirkular rotating tuthbrsh, wuntym Inglish profesor at dhe Universiti ov Madrid and Sekretri tu dhe lat Aga Ron; in London. Follick's first bill lost by just three votes. During the debate, a Tory M.P. wondered if Follick proposed to spell water u-o-o-r-t-e-r, pointed out that "some Cockneys say wa'er and Americans say watter, but how do the Scotsmen say it?" Then Glasgow's John Rankin closed that part of the discussion, said: "In Scawtland, we prrronounce it whuskey...
Readers who want to give up the time to sit a spell and take it resty are sure to find a heap of olden tales calculated to scunner the young'uns with fright, like the one about the red-haired man whose head doddled about when he walked or talked, or some others that would pleasure them, like the one about a king's daughter that was a sight how pretty. This might well be the last chance, too, for as one old granddaddy after tother told Schoolma'am Campbell: "Tale-telling is nigh about faded...