Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alan Goldsborough, who had agreed to stand by in his chambers. Just three weeks ago, Judge Goldsborough had slapped fines of $1,420,000 on John L. Lewis and the U.M.W. It took him only a few minutes to issue a temporary order against the brotherhoods. Hours later the word went out to the nation's railroaders to stay on their jobs. The trains still ran, under Army supervision...
...Spring in the air," chortled Harrison L. Blair '51 as he strolled by Soldiers Field Tuesday with companion Severe M. Ornstein '51; and suiting action to the word, the pair leaped aboard the WBZTV television tower and climbed to the 580-foot peak...
Last week, when their tiny Screen Plays, Inc. released its million-dollar movie, So This Is New York, Hollywood had another word for it: luck. It was that-and considerably more...
...Unsafe Man. Husband & wife were equally well-read, equally opposed to pedantic thinking ("Anything clear and definite," said Henry, "is only another word for limited"), hard-working and unsentimental ("I know I value some qualities more than tenderheartedness," said Annette). In his office of district judge, Henry was a stern man, but in his general opinions he was usually unorthodox. "Every European in India is more or less in a false position," he said; "[the natives'] dislike and distrust of us are reasonable...
Author McCoy, a Hollywood hand, keeps firing words out of the side of his mouth as if they were bullets, though often enough when they land they seem more like spitballs. Occasionally, to show he knows his way around a dictionary (or beyond it), he tosses in a word like "propliopithecustian." But most of the time he sticks to the literary method which assumes that the height of human expression can be reached in a monosyllabic grunt...