Word: spruced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this most virulent of anti-Fascist news organs is distributed throughout Italy was revealed last week at Baltimore, U. S. A., by its editor, spruce Dr. Vincenzo Nitti, son of the exiled onetime Prime Minister Francesco Nitti who now resides in Paris...
...president, whose function is to handle the controls. Albert Henry Wiggin occupied this position at the Chase National Bank, from 1911 to 1918, and again from 1921 to 1926* under the title of President. He occupies it now, astute observers suspect, in his title of Chairman of the Board. Spruce and quick-witted, whenever he waves his malacca wand he waves it with invariable accuracy at whichever younger brother to Cinderella best deserves the good luck of recognition...
Perusers of the Sunday New York Herald Tribune a fortnight ago found in its rotogravure section a portrait that showed an alert, spruce countenance, small but with a precise magnificence in its well-brushed and steel-grey beard. It reminded them of a someone they knew, some face they had often seen before. When they perused the caption, Charles Evans Hughes' prize-winning Schnauzer, with Miss Christine Charles at the Southampton Dog Show, they began to snicker. While it was possible (if unlikely) that famed Charles Evans Hughes had turned dog fancier, it was an inconceivable as well...
...four words are to be found in Webster's New International Dictionary. "Stramash," meaning "disturbance, ruction, broil," was applied to chronic political contentions in France. "Jimp," which has five meanings, among them (adjectively) "neat, spruce, trim," was applied to the leg of the original of Mark Twain's "Becky Thatcher." "Musnud" is the pillow or cushioned seat sat upon by an oriental potentate; was employed by TIME,-somewhat pedantically- to a university or seat-of-learning. "Kudos," of Greek derivation, means "praise, glory," was used in reference to honorary college degrees.-ED. Hibbard Flayed...
...next scene was at the Pan American Building, whither 4,000 guests had been bidden to the reception. About half the number came. The rooms were bowers of flowers?pink hydrangeas, pink roses, larkspur, peonies, ferns, spruce. Disjecta membra of the Marine Band, in three sections of the building, played the wedding march from Tannhauser, as the bride and bridegroom entered and crossed the Aztec Garden and passed the reflecting pool on a carpet of scarlet velvet...