Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holy smoke," was the word on the lips of all loyal Indians on the morn of the first Harvard invasion of their territory in half a century. They clenched their fists in anger as they read that Cambridge pranksters had poisoned the squad's candy ration a fight from a "feminine admirer...
After Radcliffe authorities had ratified a decorous Grecian-style outfit, Shwartz set his designers to work and announced the latest word in Cambridge fashions t a waiting press. The New York Dally News picked up the story and emblazoned it in the place of honor on page three...
...went by." When she got too far behind in her studies Father Otto hired a tutor, told her to "kindly stuff this little goose." Says Helen Traubel today: "I may be a numskull scholastically, but what I remember of my family-it was so wonderful. So I misspell a word...
...fussy about their paints, but few go to such lengths as Berlin-born Karl Zerbe. His pictures, which hang in 21 U.S. museums, are painted in colors mixed with hot beeswax over a stove, and afterwards cooked into the canvas with an electric heater. The Greeks had a word for it: encaustic. The Egyptians and Greeks liked encaustic for its permanency, used it for murals and mummy portraits. But since the 10th Century few painters had bothered with...
...lily-pond (some said he only tripped and fell in), and about another adorer who was unfortunately "quite a common man. My mother directed the footman to put him under the pump." Grandmama never knew that the little girl, under cover of drawing butterflies, was recording every word in self-made shorthand, written in a script so tiny that no grownup could read it without a magnifying glass...