Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other Russian papers, From Moscow came a report of his remarks: " I am bold to say that not one American in ten thousand has any idea of the order and generally good conditions prevailing here. . . . The Russian leaders strike me as intelligent, courageous and sincere. . . . But there is one thing these people have to learn . . . that they cannot expect American cooperation until they regain American confidence. . . Optimistic as my comments may seem to many people at home, that should not be taken to mean that I am less of an individualist than before or less a believer in the superiority...
Meanwhile other curious things had been occurring. Fascism was then a very small thing in Italy. Socialism was raising its voice with loud and often triumphant outcries. The socialist newspapers, noting the approaching opening of La Scala, were inspired with an idea. They printed large articles saying that in the past the boxes of the opera house had been occupied by the hated capitalists, but now a new state of things had arrived and no such anti-democratic thing would be tolerated. They demanded that the opera boxes be turned over to the proletariat. This agitation produced a result that...
...presence there? The police, as usual, bungle the matter, but Lord Peter Wimsey, a delightfully indolent young clubman, assisted by the usual Watson and a splendidly upstage butler named Bunter, at last discovers the solution not only to this problem but others involving much mystery and confusion. The best thing of its kind since The Red House Mystery. MY FRIEND FROM LIMOUSIN−Jean Giraudoux−Harper ($2.00). Awarded the Prix Balzac for 1922, this highly original and satiric novel, should prove a most acceptable literary plate of anchovy sandwiches for those who like a certain fantastic grace and suppleness...
...balanced news sheets, giving due space not only to athletics but to religious, political, social, and educational questions of the day, with good discussions and editorials. They are for the most part aware of modern life, and are better balanced in their outlook on it. Football is a fine thing, no one regrets it, until it comes to usurp the place of other things just as fine and finer...
This is, after all, not a bad thing. Any language must be alive, and must keep its vitality, even at the expense of losing some of its "literary" quality. Such slovenly usage as is to be found in the weakening of the words "pretty", "nice", "fine", and their like is distinctly "bum", but new words--even such plebeian ones as "bum"--often add color to the language. The beauty of English is that it can easily assimilates such new words and phrases, and can sift out the slang which it finds worthy of keeping...