Word: twitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Myrrh Was Twit's. Allen comes honestly by the common touch. He was born John Florence Sullivan, 52 years ago, on the lace-curtain-Irish fringe of Cambridge, Mass. His father was a bookbinder. His mother died when he was three, and he and his brother Bobby went to live with her sister,"Aunt Lizzie" Herlihy, in Allston, Mass. He was a scrawny kid, all arms, legs and adenoids. The tough little Micks in his new neighborhood took one look at his pinched, birdlike face, nicknamed him "Twit," and let him play alone. To pass time - and attract attention...
...them, burst forth one morning last week with ads offering to sell them for 98? apiece, or three for $2.79. Gimbels, which had been selling the pens for $3.85 only the day before, slashed the price next day to 94?, or three for $2.59. (To twit Macy's further, Gimbels snidely pointed out that its own 62 Bollero, "which we consider a far superior pen," was selling for 88?.) Macy's, having sold 68,000 Reynolds pens at 98? in a day, knocked off 10? more. Gimbels went...
...engaged in effective propaganda for Burmese independence. Just before Pearl Harbor Londoners flocked to hear him twit British imperialism. When he was reminded of the Japanese menace, U Saw made a restrained statement of loyalty to the Crown: "The people of Burma are rather inclined to rely on the devil they know than on the devil they don't." Then he suavely added: "It is not for me to decide [between Britons and Japs] the degree of their devilment." On his way home U Saw perhaps got as far as Cairo. Then no more was heard...