Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noun "virgin" is not one which gentlemen or ladies employ, in any other than a religious connection. I shall inquire from my attorneys whether its use in the letters to which I refer is or is not libelous. You may rest assured that my married or unmarried state, as the case may be, is not a subject upon which I shall stoop to satisfy curious vulgarians...
...Prudent Dynamiters" appeared, the students asserted that same belligerence toward your magazine that they do toward any other foreign meddling with their national affairs; but this seems to have pacified them considerably. The truth so often hurts that I am not sure whether I shall be able to use TIME in my classes next year or not. No one knows anything about China save the Chinese, you know, regardless of whether or not you were born here and lived half your life here, and know the language better than the average Chinese into the bargain. I should like very much...
Saint-Jean-de-Luz, elegant village on the Atlantic Coast of France near gaudy Biarritz* had news, if few visitors, last week. A villa, said this one to that one, had been leased by the U. S. embassy at Paris for the use of Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg next summer...
Toothpicks. "Perhaps occasionally toothpicks are harmful, but no more so comparatively than razors, scissors, safety pins, matches and even dental restorations in some instances. Why can't we be modest about it and derive the benefits to be derived from the proper use of the proper toothpick at the proper time?"-Dr. C. M. Kennedy, Des Moines...
...People greatly exaggerate the dangers of the tropical countries. They seem to think they are swarming with poisonous snakes and vicious insects. All one has to do is use common sense," continued Dr. Allen. "It was however quite difficult to get around. We had to do all our travelling on foot over the narrow rough paths which wind through the dense tropical forests. There are little villages mere clusters of straw huts scattered throughout the interior of Liberia. Our native porters did not want to leave their own villages too far behind so we had to hire a different...