Word: webster
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Gregory Kelly, best recalled as Willie Baxter in Seventeen is his "Butter and Egg Man*," and a better performance could not be desired. Sylvia Field is the little stenographer with whom he falls in love, and Lucille Webster is the wisecracking elderly female who used to juggle Indian clubs in vaudeville...
...constant rule. I come across in the issue of Aug. 24, Page 18, Column 2 a very strange word-"bathysophical". What meaning that can convey to those who have little Latin and less Greek I should not venture to say. Search in the dictionaries and Concise Oxford, Webster Century is in vain. The contex would give to one knowing its Greek roots the meaning "deep sea enthusiast". Then why not use that adjective? But "bathysophical" requires some mental conjuring. And then you are uncertain...
Later he motored to Marshfield, paused before the tomb of Daniel Webster...
...hobby: words. In his spare moments he would seize the Webster dictionary which crowned his desk and therein peruse definitions which he compared with those of the lexicographer, Worcester. This habit bred the rhythm in his conversation "Now Webster says . . . but Worcester maintains...
...true, how could this party have gone through the long years of underground struggle, have made the greatest revolution in the world, have been able to lead the millions and to assist the formation of revolutionary parties in other countries?" Max Eastman, 42, whose father was descended from Daniel Webster, was born in New York State. He was graduated from Williams College in 1905 and subsequently became an associate professor at Columbia University, teaching Philosophy...