Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gives rise to a feeling that what he says is more or less true. Reviewers, Mr. Littel writes, are notably overworked persons; and consequently their styles the excepts a choice minority) have come to be strangely, and most grotesquely, similar. They seem to have certain words which they invariably use, and without which no book review is complete. He cites examples 'poignant', 'moving', 'intriguing', 'admirable words which have been dulled with constant use until they have now lost any definite meaning they originally possessed, and are employed for connotation rather than denotation. Not only are they trite--they are vague...
...British Empire who fell in the Great War." Moreover President (Premier)** William Thomas Cosgrave of the Irish Free State had added gloom to the unveiling by refusing to attend. His absence, he explained, was out of respect to the "pain" still felt by Free Staters at the use of British troops to put down the Dublin uprising...
...does not use rouge, but a lipstick always," said Mme. Simone Lahovary, attendant upon Queen Marie, of Her Majesty...
...further nefarious use to which the anti-Yaqui campaign will undoubtedly be put lies in the use of the soldiers thus mobilized to enforce the anti-religious policy of the Calles Administration, (TIME, Oct. 4 et ante...
...orphanage, where it took months to wean her even slightly from her savage ways. She fiercely tore off the clothes they sewed on her. She bit and clawed when they tried to bathe her. She put her mouth down into her dishes of food, not understanding the use of her hands save as weapons. In time she learned something of their use and acquired a few human words. Weak mentally, she neither laughed nor cried, preferring the company of dogs and other animals to human children...