Word: worded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Smith Did Sirs: I am surprised and disgusted with TIME. You tell all about what Boris, the big Serb, did on March 4, but not one word do you give about the other man who if half a million votes had been ort the other side of the fence would have been the big show on March...
...interests of giving Calvin Coolidge his deserts you should have left the hyphen out of that last word...
From London last week came word of another new opera in English, the libretto for which has been written by Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett, the music by Eugene Goossens. Their opera is called Judith and based on the apocryphal legend which has served many a poet and composer before them.* It will be performed at Covent Garden early this summer...
...previous results of attempts to control women do not promise much success to this project. The traditional last word of Xantippe and the saline perversity of the wife of Lot show that restrictions are not particularly adaptable to them. The objection of the associate editor of the college newspaper that co-eds "waylay and harass the male students", and, "destroy the studious and scholarly atmosphere of the college," are just as vain as the same argument that resulted in Socrates taking up his abode in the public square. At Detroit fifty girls are opposed to two thousand men, but Cleopatra...
...Fiench language, Anglo-Saxons have added the word "beefsteak."* Happenings of last week made it possible that the U. S. branch of the Anglo-Saxon family might also add the word "flivver' For Henry Ford was preparing to drive vigorously for the French market and to compete sharply with Citroen, the popular-priced French car which sells at approximately the same price ($1,000) in the French market as the least expensive of the new Fords...