Word: urchin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your little boy calls your neighbor a naughty name, you can spank the urchin, wash out his mouth with soap and water and not let him ride his bicycle for a week. That usually pacifies the neighbor. But if you run a newspaper and some cub reporter decorates a story with opprobrious epithets, either invented by himself or repeated after a third person, you are, if the epithets get published, responsible for their accuracy to the person described by them. If the injured one sues you, it will do you no good to discharge the cub reporter. You have...
...Mediterranean shoal, Sturly pricked his nose against a crawling globe with reddish spines. The globe chuckled, softly. It was old Echinus, the Sea-Urchin, the malefemale, ancestor of the oceans, in whom are all the joys of love and all human knowledge. Sturly was respectful of his counsel...
...University Library. Even more does the lack of any sense of value displayed by these Vandals challenge explanation. At its best, this sort of thing is reminiscent of the penciled moustache on the High School statue of Apollo; at its worst it approaches the mentality of the urchin who chalks his meagre store of profanity on fences and telegraph poles...
...every age vandalism has been regarded with contempt by the overwhelming majority of civilized society. The seriousness of the offence varies from the sack of a city to the mischievousness of a gang of small boys. Obviously, to hang an urchin for smashing a street lamp is as out of proportion as to give half a dozen lashes to a soldier who has burnt down a house and murdered the owners...
...mister, wanta take a chance on th' chimes?" This was the cry that greeted the undergraduate last fall on his return to college, instead of the usual "Scramble!" Beset on every hand by a small urchin or urchiness, the harassed undergraduate at last reluctantly took a chance. He lost...