Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Referring to Mr. Bob de Lany's criticism of your use of the word "whop" [TIME, Sept. 13], and your query as to whether readers agree with this gentleman...
...slightest idea as to what happened until I came to in the street some moments later, in rather a bloody and dirty mess. In relating this incident afterwards-it seems that we must all tell of our operations and accidents-I have stated that there is only one word that can describe the sensation and that was one from the comic strip, namely: "WHAM...
TIME, how could you, how could you, how could you! The Lowells are a pretty decent tribe. They condescend to speak to the Cabots. It is the clan of the Cabots who, traditionally, converse only with God [TIME, Sept. 6]. And the word isn't speak-it is talk. I visited the grave of my life-long friend, Dr. John C. Bossidy, and, sure enough, he had turned over. Who could blame...
...hard driving. En route in Omaha, when an interviewer asked Senator O'Mahoney if he were hurrying home to lay the groundwork for the President's visit, Mrs. O'Mahoney answered for her husband: "Perhaps 'allay' is the better word." They arrived a day ahead of the Presidential special. Before the train reached Cheyenne, it stopped long enough for Cheyenne papers to be put aboard. Front-page headlines told about a testimonial banquet which Cheyenne Democrats had "only yesterday" decided to give Senator O'Mahoney. When the train stopped at Cheyenne, New Deal Senator...
...Coast Guard, Lloyd's of London announced that she had been sighted by the British tanker Amastra 750 miles off the Azores, tolled its historic Lutine Bell at the good news. But from the Amastra by radio came a prompt and puzzling denial. Four days later word came that another British tanker, the Cheyenne, had sighted the missing sloop 260 mi. off the coast of Ireland and the Lutine Bell tolled again, first occasion it had ever been rung a second time for one ship...