Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pressroom. We quarrel with this picture on grounds of professional honesty. When a press room no matter what press room assumes some such motto as Love, Honor and Purity then someone is lying and ought to have his mouth washed out with soap. The type setter's quartet broadcasting "Sweet Adcline" before the evening's work, for all the world like a lot of Big Brothers from Station WEEL was about as indigestible a thought as the movies have put over in some time. If the wrecking crew down stairs ever did such a thing there would be just...
...Church's cause. It exhorts the faithful to "militate courageously under the banners of Christ the King, to go back with apostolic fervor to the rebels and misguided ones and strive to maintain the rights of God himself intact," for "when in international meetings and parliaments the sweet name of our Redeemer is passed in shameful silence it is highly necessary to acclaim it publicly, announcing everywhere the rights of His sovereign dignity and power...
...Krishnamurti is an old story. He has titillated sewing circles periodically since 1908, when sweet Mrs. Besant carried him from India off to her English home. He was 12 years old, reminiscent to Mrs. Besant of a Boy who talked to doctors in the Temple. He had written a book, At the Feet of the Master, and Mrs. Besant, just turned 60, was young to theosophy...
...Love of human speech and expertness in it were both a cause and a result of his devotion to phonetics. Promptly he came under the influence of that brilliant English pioneer in linguistics, Henry Sweet, whose writings contributed much to the shaping of Sheldon's natural tendencies. In this fundamental silence America lagged far behind the countries of Europe. Sheldon, in his introduction of it at home, was an innovator and a leader in the renovation of philological thinking. He it was who first established a course in phonetics at Harvard; it was he who assembled the nucleons...
...excellent bit as madame's chef, gesticulating, grimacing, and rushing foolishly about the stage in the immemorial way of Frenchmen. He was the perfectly fantastic foreigner, thinking orange blossoms and truffles, operas and endives. Peg Entwhistle deserves commendation also, for although she was forced to act the sweet young thing, she came nearer looking the part than many an elderly ingenue. Considering her youth and her work in "The Wild Duck," we predict for her a bright future...