Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silvery-haired former Studio Carpenter Edward W. Wentworth, who had bucked I.A.T.S.E. and lost, gave as "an old man's opinion," that "you've no more chance of doing any good in this situation than a snowball in hell...
...kind that comes from week after week of sparring with the same partners. There must be a little more incentive to win. Boxing for the joy of boxing may exist, but the majority of fist-flingers want to see more than a bruised sparring partner (whom they've fought a dozen times before) after they get through a few three-minute sessions...
...believe you've got something there, sir" came the reply as the hockey stick left for the ice accompanied by the Economics student...
...would-be fiction writer, I've made analogies between writing and painting. No Supreme Court, thank God, imposes upon us a blind followance of the rules of grammar. Similarly, no Hitler decrees that all painters must draw in perspective. Grammar and perspective are tools, not ends: they must be used, not worshipped. No writer wants his story to be merely schoolteacherish grammar. No painter wants his picture to be merely good architectural perspective. Both writer and painter do have a common purpose: the writer, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the reader; the painter, to amuse, to shock...
Said William Zielsdorf last week: "I've been lucky all my life. Why, I won three turkey raffles...