Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some time ago a scintillating adjective joined the American language. It expressed the superlative of all that is elegant, fashionable, fastidious and rich. From which famous hostelry, the Ritz-Carlton of Manhattan, or the Ritz of London, or the Ritz of Paris this word sprang is a question which philologists must decide. Thus, at least−somehow or other−was born "Ritzy." (See THE PRESS...
...group of men fidgeted on a platform in Waterloo Station, London. Trains puffed in, carriage doors flew open, a host of grinning Americans and Canadians flocked out. The fidgeters, English reception committee of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, sprang into action, shook hands, in every direction, loaded the grinners into a fleet of taxis, chugged off with them toward the Strand to the 20th Annual International Advertising Convention...
...brainchild. It is true, however, that there have been and still are voracious readers of this drivel. Over half a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, it was translated into five languages, including Japanese, and a Finnish edition is now under way. A prodigious mushroom crop of "Glad dubs" sprang up in its wake, and innumerable families were afflicted with "glad" little girls who, when a bee stung them, were glad it wasn't two bees...
...Hertz, now a national figure, got his start in the motor business as an automobile salesman, and his start as a motor operator by buying three taxicabs and borrowing seven more. From this start the Yellow Taxicab Co. of Chicago sprang. Hertz succeeded in injecting responsibility and economy into a chaotic industry...
...moment the Yale shell touched shore, the crew sprang out to the smart one, two, threes of the cox, dashed away for a shower and to dress and then to the special train that was waiting to take them to Manhattan and the ship that is to carry them to France, for they will represent the U. S. in the eights races in the Olympic Games...