Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, current issue). The scrivener runs riot, tom-tomming all over his paragraph. Let a protest be noted. Peeping TOMS, TOMboys, Blind TOMS, TOM-tits, TOMcats, TOMcods, TOM turkeys, Long TOMS, the TOM of the tom-toms as words, should be axed. Why should a noble name be subject to veiled insult and subtle abuse? Sir, in the game of Gleek the knave of trumps is called TOM! An oyster's liver is sneeringly called a TOMalley! Why not Peter for the Peepers, Terry for the little girls who break windows and thumb their noses, Bert for the blind...
...Dance (Dolores Del Rio and Charles Farrell)-Good acting on the subject of the Russian revolution. Somewhat sentimental.* The Magnificent Flirt (Florence Vidor) -Modern, silken, original, with a Parisian setting...
...stir up Sense and Power enough to move; and the Moment you cease beating the smart is forgot, and down they fall again into a state of Insensibility, drivling constantly from the Mouth as if in deep salivation; breathe slowly, but not unequally nor snort. Young people are more subject to it than the old; and the Judgment generally pronounced is Death, the Prognostick seldom failing. If now and then one of them recovers he certainly loses the little Reason he had, and turns Ideot...
...Baldwin," said a punctilious newsgatherer, "would you favor us with an opinion on some political subject...
These suppositions, both curious and piquant, last week were the subject of private, but not public, discussion...