Word: worded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flood of biographies comes pouring in out of the publishers' presses. Chaliapin and Bismarck ... Napoleon and His Women Friends ... Robespierre and Uncle Joe Cannon ... with every anecdote that ever murmured about them in five point type. All the state secrets the private correspondence, the family albums, the unkind word and the billet doux that was lost before it could be committed to the flames...
Take the famous Rinehart tradition, for instance. The sleepy Senior roused from his slumbers at midnight by the wailing echoes across the Yard wonders if there was ever a time when a Senior might put his head out of the window of a Yard dormitory and shout the magic word "Rinehart" without anywhere from two to 20 other Seniors growling or roaring or barking the same word in reply. There was such a time, and that only about 30 years ago. The pathetic tale of the lonely student who heard other students being called by friends, but was never called...
...only safe place in the Square," will go down through the years even as Mr. Jones's sign. And to uphold professorial traditions, Professor Whitney is strenuously preparing himself against the day when, Professor Merriman's energy failing, the duty of teaching history by action as well as by word will fall upon...
Miss Earle who has a rich mine of culture has worked it for its most lavish production. She has exploited her vast knowledge of the English vocabulary to a staggering degree. In so doing the length of verse is often subjected to the cause of an extra-size word or two, thus throwing the reader completely out of step. Her lines are vigorous, robust, even Englishly athletic...
...must go far to find a more finely wrought story than "The Killers": cruelly, inevitably it moves to its appointed end, with never a word too much, with never a let-up in the swift relentless drama of the two gunmen and their victim. Some may find "A Canary for One" and "Today is Friday" a little overdone, a little obviously "tricky," but few will want to lay the book down before they have shared in all of Mr. Hemingway's many experiences...