Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every girl--colleen, pardon me -- is a type; if she's rude, she is a hoyden; if lewd, a minx; if lovely, a nymph; if lovely and black-eyed, a houri (that comes from an Arabian word, he parenthesized with a smack of his lips). Now, you may think there is no difference between a vixen, for which are wrongly substituted the obsolete words 'virago' and 'termagant,' and a shrew. But there is! A shrew is always a brawling woman, while a vixen is merely bad-tempered...
...experience this will not fail unless it happens to be a chilly evening, on which nights the right type of female remains home. A colleague of mine advised jumping in the river if the "car" method was unsuccessful, but not until he tried it did he realize the resulting difficulties, mostly wet clothes and the loss in short order of the attracted victim...
...advertising directors of United Kingdom Tobacco Co., makers of "Grey's" cigarets, a somewhat swank but inexpensive brand. In 48 hours London newspapers appeared with quarter and half-page advertisements flaunting largely the company's new slogan: "The Fleet is All Lit Up!" And in small type below the explanation: "They're smoking Grey's cigarets." Abashed Commander Woodrooffe explained: "I was so overcome by the occasion that I burst into tears and found I could say no more." To be sure that announcers would not be overcome with emotion on public occasions...
Chief objection is that the usual life policy is made up of two indivisible parts, pure insurance and a mandatory savings account. This type of policy provides ''level premiums," a device to equalize payments throughout the life of the policy. (Actuarial tables call for premiums increasing with age.) In the usual policy the amount of pure insurance decreases each year by an amount just equal to the increase in cash value. Thus a $10,000 policy with a $5,000 cash value is really $5,000 worth of insurance plus $5,000 worth of savings. However, the savings...
...most part Devis painted just such pictures as this one on view in the Fogg. In the middle of the eighteenth century this type had become more popular than portraits, for they suited better the prosperous middle class. To produce them, the painters--under Hogarth's lead--had turned for guidance to the earlier Dutch masters...