Word: worded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Saturday is a half-holiday, and perhaps for that reason there was no time for parley. On the word of three members of the Cambridge police force--that they were the dramatic experts of that organization goes without saying--John M. Casey, who issues the thoushalt-nots to the citizens of Boston, decided that the performance was "unfit for presentation". To communicate this decision to the Mayor's office was the work of one moment, and to publish the prohibition of the play of another...
...quite sure that you will agree with me that the word should be "bad" not "badly" and that he was "feeling...
...what Henry Flury of Washington, D. C., has to say regarding G. W. P. Hunt: long time governor of Arizona. 'Unique' indeed is a public speaker, let alone a state executive who deliberately picks his nose while on the public platform. In fact unique is no word for it. 'A great humanitarian who never signed a Death Warrant' but Commitments to the Insane Asylum instead, where ex-condemned on escaping would return on their own volition because the "grub" was so good. 'The State Prison was transformed from a place of horror' to where...
President Coolidge, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, Democratic firebrand, Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, Republican man-of-all-words, spoke in the same room in Washington, D. C., one night last week. Some 150 newsmen heard them. Yet not a word of what they said appeared in the public prints. It was the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Club; at such a function the club beards itself with the phrase, "reporters are never present...
...chewers who will chew Wrigley's Doublemint gum in 1929 will realize that the use of the word "Doublemint" is costing the Wrigley company almost $2,000,000. Back in 1911 the L. P. Larson gum company, claiming prior rights to the word "Doublemint," sued Wrigley for its use of this brand name. After a -year battle, Wrigley Gum and Larson Gum have settled the quarrel by payment of $1,900,000 to the Larson company...