Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter from a recent correspondent of yours m referring to a lady of prominent Virginia lineage, who is the acknowledged fiancee of the Duke of Windsor, makes highly unpardonable use of the word "mistress" [TIME, March 8.] Gentlemen, and Kings whether active or abdicated, do not marry "mistresses," and it is high time that the cheap tittle-tattle of the scurrilous should end. . . . There is a strong sentiment in England as there is here that both lady & lover have been treated in a most unchivalrous and dastardly manner both by Cads Clerical and Cads Temporal, and it is high time...
...deem to be their rights in an economic system which is dominated ... by lawlessness and largely by reason of the fact that the Government does not enforce the law. . . . The power belongs to us to restore economic justice to the economic system of the United States or, take my word for it, we will have something more than sit-down strikes in the United States...
...circular letters. During his grave illness of the past four months, however, His Holiness was generally thought to have said his last say. But the doughty Pontiff heartened his flock by rallying toward the beginning of Lent, and last week Pius XI released his 29th encyclical, a 13,000-word denunciation of Communism, suddenly and startlingly followed this on Palm Sunday with No. 30, addressed to the faithful of Germany and forecasting a rupture between the Holy See and the Third Reich...
...always thought that Shakspere was batty when he said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. What there is about the word rose that calls up images of sweetly perfumed balconies on sultry moon-lit evenings in the spring, and maidens eager to be stormed thereon, and oh! so tenderly captured, we don't know. But we're perfectly sure that if the vicissitudes of language had caused Romeo to climb by a trellis of cucumbers to Juliet's bower to gain that soul-stirring kiss, the play might as well not have been written. There...
...most likely to succeed." Every man in the House will agree that the popularity of the dining hall can be attributed to Mrs. De Pinto, the Head Waitress. The academic year is hardly launched before Mrs. "Dee" knows the names of all "her boys." Her charming smile and friendly word has brightened up many a luncheon or dinner which might have been just another meal. When the House Football Trophy left the Winthrop Dining Hall last fall, for the first time in five years, no one missed it more than Mrs. "Dee." She had come to look upon...