Word: worded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agree with me that it is a great little American comedy and the best constructed play in years-then never take my word again...
From two sources, last week, word came that musicians get big figures (financially), think in big figures, have tiffs in big figures. And loud was the cry that they care more for these figures than for music...
...Francisco tongues wagged when word went out that Maria Jeritza would arrive next September with the Salome of Richard Strauss, dance there for the first time in the U. S. her version of the Seven Veils. The echo spread as far as Manhattan. Perhaps the Metropolitan would relent now, let Salome into her own repertoire. She is, according to Jeritza, not a bad girl, just a little wild. But the Metropolitan board, it seems, refuses to be convinced, stays now as it has been for the past 20 years, firmly anti-Salometic...
...Without saying a word as the boy gazed up at her, the woman pulled the knife and slashed the boy's throat, then hastily turned and left the building...
...Despite its context, this word was not, as many of Billy Sunday's listeners no doubt imagined, a malaprop description of St. Louis vice. Nor was "bloody" used in its colloquial connotation. The new testament promulgates the theory that one person may atone for the sins of another; even, by great suffering and great holiness, for the sins of many. Monasteries, contrary to common supposition, are founded upon this principle of substitution. Perhaps the most strikingly emotional element of Christianity, it often finds expression in urgent hymns such as "Washed in the Blood of the Lamb...