Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentence ("He has been a friend of labor for 30 years") and sent it back retyped. A two-minute standing ovation, with applause rent with rebel yells, came when the resolution was read in the House. Only a few New Dealers kept their seats. In the Senate word came around from Boss Garner that he wanted no speeches, demonstration or even mention of the incident...
Since the Axis treaty, Italians refer to Adolf Hitler as La Voce del Padrone ("The Master's Voice"), the Victor phonograph trademark whose secondary meaning is understood by everyone. Too many Gestapo men are around to mention the word "Hitler or "Adolf," but when Italians say "We were better off under our own padrone," the inference is that they believe Il Duce to have lost his hold on Italy and that the Führer is really the boss...
...between classroom English and the way most people talk, also tried to do something about it last week. His An Index to English* intended "to answer some common questions about English usage and style," makes no bones about being colloquial, passes as good usage in spoken English such a word as enthuse, such an expression as it's me, such pronunciations as ree'-search and ex-qui'-site. Professor Perrin thinks Americans had better stick to American words and not fool around with such tony Gallicisms as chic, enceinte and demimonde. Some foreign terms are handy: "Hors...
...Orleans. Five months later he wired Publisher Etheredge that he was tired of wandering, would rather live in Beaumont than any place on earth. He got his job back and has been there ever since-in spite of occasional carouses (for which he would always apologize in 2,000-word letters), in spite of threats to inefficient assistants to "come around the desk and get you," in spite of a sit-down strike he once conducted to get a good assistant a raise. Shannon took the assistant out to a park bench and sat there with him until the raise...
...Today Wendell Willkie is the biggest political figure in U. S. business. Electric power (he calls it "par") is his business, but power in the general sense is a word that recurs often in his philosophy. Free enterprise, free competition and free trade are his tenets for raising the economic standards of society...