Word: worde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amusing little verses now being widely circulated under the title Mother Goose Censored? It seems to me that you might have made use of it in your article "Goose Dispute," in the Dec. 9 issue. The editor of the poems leaves a blank wherever the absence of an innocent word might imply the presence of a naughtier one. The result should be a good lesson to some of our scurrilousminded censors. Here is a mild example: Doctor Foster went to Gloucester In a shower of rain; He stepped in a puddle up to his - And never went there again. HARVEY...
...students to examine and understand thoroughly. Thus instead of being forced to read or examine diagrams on these subjects, they may get into the spirit of what they are doing by dealing with the machines themselves, and this may be an added spur to further research. In a word, the students at this new school are to learn in practice what is now taught in theory...
...stage show are good but the booker made the mistake of engaging three tap dancers on one program and good as they all are the dose is a heavy one. There are one or two comic acts that meet with some success. As for Nan Halperin, the headliner, the word propriety seems to have lost its meaning for her. And this is Boston...
...President Hoover last week knocked the first word from Patrick Jay Hurley's title of Assistant Secretary of War. On the same day the President asked Mr. Hurley to change the name of Fort Russell at Cheyenne, Wyo., to Fort Warren as a ''fine tribute" to the late Senator Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming...
...greatest tool of stability is construction and maintenance work. The improvements and betterments and general cleanup of plants. . . . All of these efforts have one end-to assure employment. . . . A great responsibility rests upon the whole people. I have no desire to preach. I may, however, mention one good old word-work...