Word: worded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Occasionally TIME uses "verbal" when -oral" is the correct word for a spoken statement...
Action. The present Secretary of the Interior, Roy O. West, at once acted on Attorney General Sargent's advice and notified Oilman Sinclair's Crude Oil Purchasing Co.* to stop removing Salt Creek oil. To some 100 other lessors in the Salt Creek field, word was sent that the U. S. elected to take all its royalties in cash until further notice. The Department of Justice began preparing a new fraud suit against Oilman Sinclair. Secretary West cancelled all extension contracts for U. S. royalty oil, and ordered investigation of all oil leases made by Fall and still...
Eager for classification, students sought a word which might fit such potent industrialists. They shelved master, titan, king, as painfully obvious. They considered ponderous recondite synonyms for potentate, but at length rejected hospodar, beglerbeg and three-tailed bashaw as offensively obscure. They hit happily on the brief but sonorous Tycoon...
...William Archibald Spooner, onetime warden of New College, Oxford, celebrated last fortnight his golden wedding anniversary. He has long been aware that he is the cause of the appearance of the word "spoonerism" in the Oxford English Dictionary. A spoonerism is the transposition of two sounds, or of the first letters of two words, in a simple sentence. In 1879, Dr. Spooner announced a hymn as "The Kinquering Congs Their Titles Take." Since then, he has been labeled the author of countless spoonerisms. But, on his golden wedding celebration, he stoutly maintained that "Kinquering Congs" was his one and only...
...Dear Sisters of the South": "Do not think me intrusive in speaking to you, but recall how my father, Horace Greeley, came down after the Civil War, to bail your President, Jeff Davis, and returned to face in consequence almost financial ruin. May I send you a word of greeting to say how glad I am that so many of you are breaking through party lines to vote for a great American, Herbert Hoover. "Herbert Hoover has grown up in the clean country, an orphan wrestling with poverty for a living and an education. After gaining these with his great...