Word: worde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some few weeks ago we noticed an article in the New York Sun using the word NEWSCASTING. This appealed to us as a most appropriate expression, so that we were led to refer to our 10-Minute Radio News Service talks on Mexico under that term. We have since learned that you created that word in referring to the broadcasting of news and desire to congratulate you on your originality. We would be pleased to know if you have any objection to our use of the expression in so describing our radio news service...
Sweltering Showdown. Though the potent attack of M. Franklin-Bouillion and his Bloc had thus been safely weathered, long hours of sultry word-fencing by M. Briand with at least a dozen orators ensued before the question reached a vote. Fearful that the Deputies would never commit themselves to explicit ratification, the government did not put the issue squarely, as the final showdown came. Instead the Chamber was asked to pass a weasel-Jaw authorizing popular President Gaston ("Gastounet"') Domergue to perform the act of ratification by executive decree. Prior to seeking action on even this weasel...
From Moscow came no equally authoritative counter charge. Soviet troops were admittedly mobilizing to menace Manchuria like a pair of tongs closing in from Manchuli and Vladivostok. Russian newspapers in the U. S. received word that General Uberovitch had been appointed Soviet Commander-in-Chief. During the World War he served as a regimental commander in the Imperial Russian Army, was later C.-in-C. of the Soviet forces which repulsed the white Russian Armies from Siberia in 1919. Though a taciturn martinet, Comrade Commander Uberovitch is popular in the Red Army, is reckoned its most brilliant strategist...
...Marcel goes instead, seeking the cause of the attraction, which develops to be one Mile. Vinteuil, a guest expected there. Follows a detailed description of the evening and those who attend. When he returns, Marcel's captive reveals to him her Sapphic desires by a half-spoken street-word, and flees the male whose love torments...
When the 1929 season opened, TIME (April 15) reported the names of 24 players new to the two big Leagues this year and "great" in spring practice. TIME said: "In July, TIME will publish the same list with word as to which have stayed 'great,' which returned to the bush leagues." The list, the word, follows...