Word: worded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sense) are affected by your quotation from Mr. Sunday, the evangelist, to the effect that God answers every prayer, but may answer "Yes," "No," or "Wait." This is an unworthy quibble upon the meaning of "answer," much like those from which our President suffered when he carelessly used the word "choose...
...earned pats on the back from his hometown newspapers. Fresh from a Florida vacation, he was once more setting out his political pot to boil in the warm sun of Manhattan subway disorders and "rampant vice," and in a lunch club talk he either coined or repeated a new word to describe political malefactors. "The latter are graftocrats!" he cried. The press cheered...
...London the first word of clear council to cut through the babbling of the press came from Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, who was the first British High Commissioner to Irak (1920-23) and has treated personally with Ibn Saud...
After the "Ask Me Another" peril was finally filed safely away in the waste basket along with the Cross Word Puzzle books it was not evident from whence would come the heir apparent to the honored place on the library table, once held by the sterioptican and family album. The answer came partially with MARRIAGE MADE EASY by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins (The Century Co., New York, 1928, $1.25). When bridge and conversation fail it is one of those strange playthings which baffle the intelligence and flatter the vanity...
...personally shy Hoover, who frequently struggles ineffffectively for the right word, draws little doo dads on a sheet of paper when he talks, and sometimes seems to derive embarrassment even from the act of shaking hands...