Word: wording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know if that word was in use in other parts of the South, but it was much used here; however, I have not heard it in many years...
...months ago Mrs. Fleming, with her sister and brother-in-law, moved into the trim white house next to Alloway's town hall. Soon word went around that the newcomers were not pure white. Righteous citizens gathered in front of the house, yelled imprecations, threw stones wrapped in paper saying "Get out!" Children tagged after Mrs. Fleming jeering, "Nigger woman! Nigger woman...
Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran appended to the report a word of explanation: though the "volume" of work done in 1929 was smaller, the "quality" of enforcement in 1929 "showed marked improvement...
...many another clue. A battered Studebaker car with a Massachusetts license had been seen near Pach's studio. Teasing telegrams arrived at the office of the Yale Daily News. A message from Winter Park, Fla., said that the Fence was being nibbled by alligators. From Niagara Falls came word that the relic had been seen tumbling over the cataract. In Chicago someone was holding "the third rail of the Fence." Other telegrams came from Seattle, Poughkeepsie, Cambridge, Mass. All were signed "Algernon Gustavson...
...much surprised to find, in the exposition of the House Plan appearing in the CRIMSON of November 26, not a word relating to the ultimate fate, under this plan, of the dormitories of the Gold Coast, and above all of those in the Yard. Surely the students of Harvard have a right to know what is to be done with these buildings...