Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estate of Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, the Hamilton filed a petition to reorganize under Section 77B of the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Last year Illinois' onetime Attorney General Oscar Carlstrom. the club's 43rd president, desperately got its members' consent to delete the word "Republican" from the charter and open membership to Democrats, chief effect of which was that a number of crusty Republican diehards huffily resigned. Another last-minute expedient was to lease part of the clubhouse to Chicago's Interfraternity Council. But last week Democratic Federal Judge William H. Holly ordered...
...write sad verses for his friends,* he was a founder of the British Labor Party, the first person to bring it to a position of importance in British affairs, three times Prime Minister of Great Britain and an intimate personal friend of King George V. Yet "traitor" was a word hurled at him over & over throughout the last 20 years. Because he spoke out loudly against British entry in the World War in 1914 he was ostracized as a traitor to the nation for years. Because he felt it necessary to abandon the principles of the old Labor Party...
...general that the Balinese have no word for it. Housewives prepare offerings to the gods in the form of sculptured food, with statues carved in gristle decorated with red peppers and lacy lining from the stomachs of hogs. The handles of daggers and the designs on native cloth show the same painstaking craft...
...London's Whitehall, day before Armistice Day, no unseemly shrieks (see p. 25) disturbed the ceremony as curtains parted to reveal the late handsome Field Marshal George Alexander Eugene Douglas, Earl Haig in conservative bronze. Conservative was the mildest word many British artists had for this third effort of Sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman, A. R. A., who has been badgered for eight years about his designs. His version of the field marshal's cavalry horse was once described by Lady Haig as "monstrous." She also considered it unnatural that the field marshal's head should be hatless...
...save for his drinks of an evening, he was a man of modest habits. Last week Holy Trinity learned differently when Father Balaban got in trouble with the Law. It was not for the sort of offense-rape, shooting, embezzlement et al.-which lawbreaking parsons commonly commit. On the word of a U. S. Secret Service agent, Father Balaban was a counterfeiter, head of a ring which operatives had been watching for a year...