Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple of years ago, when he was running for office, Alabama's caveman Governor James E. Folsom was struck spang in the middle of a speech, couldn't rightly put one word after another. His roving eye had fastened on a fine figure of a woman in the crowd. He found out later that her name was Jamelle Moore, and that her daddy worked for the state. Jim courted her off & on, when he wasn't kissing other women...
...record, wrote about his adventures in a book called Winged Dagger, and went to live quietly at suburban Codsall, near Wolverhampton, with his parents and his three admiring brothers, Keith, Ray and Rex (also known as "Pud"). Twice Roy got letters containing a single sheet with the single Hebrew word: "Nekama!" (Revenge...
...future, a convention of resort operators and tourist officials decided in Lethbridge last week, Alberta would use the word "visitor" instead of the crassly commercial word "tourist...
...Lessons of the Master. "To me," Armstrong once wrote, "the key word is-Browning. His has been the master influence." To learn all there was to know about Browning, he often stayed at his books until 3 a.m., got up again at 6. But at midnight Saturday he knocked off; his Congregationalist mother had taught him that Sunday was a day of rest. When the clock struck midnight again on Sunday, he often went back to his books...
...British Public Information Office, short on manpower, tries to give reasonably accurate handouts. But its sources often turn out to be the uncorroborated word of an Arab (or Jewish) constable of the Palestine Police...