Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sweet Racket...
...Alabama State line I made a bee line for the nearest highway patrol station, asking what fees were necessary, I was told that the State was free to commercial travellers. They then asked if I had been swindled in Mississippi and told me that it was a sweet racket which had been going on since 1934. These Alabama highway patrol boys make it a point to warn all travellers from their side and told me that even so, many travellers are "arrested" WHILE ON THEIR WAY to the office in Pascagoula...
...House revelers next Friday night will dance until two o'clock to the sophisticated swing music of Art Shaw and his Brunswick recording orchestra. Lovely and vivacious Dorothy Howe, at present under contract to M.G.M. in Hollywood will entertain guests with her singing, while Art Shaw himself will summon sweet and hot strains from his clarinet...
...always thought that Shakspere was batty when he said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. What there is about the word rose that calls up images of sweetly perfumed balconies on sultry moon-lit evenings in the spring, and maidens eager to be stormed thereon, and oh! so tenderly captured, we don't know. But we're perfectly sure that if the vicissitudes of language had caused Romeo to climb by a trellis of cucumbers to Juliet's bower to gain that soul-stirring kiss, the play might as well not have been written. There...
...with primal passion and heart-throb and love--gives a musical quality and dramatic force that's been associated with it ever since. If you said to us "Romeo" and we replied "Romeyback" that would be that. But when Juliet, atop the rose-kirtled balcony, breathes out on the sweet smelling evening, "Ah, Romeo!" it's a moment immortal...