Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tibbetts as the fiend, Polyphemus, must be mentioned first. Anyone who has been in Cambridge for more than a year does not need to read praise of his magnificent voice. This was, however, the first time I had seen him act (pose in this case in probably a better word), and D'Oyly Carte's Mikado never excelled him in evil expression. Handel's bass arias are distinguished for the acrobatics they demand. Tibbetts showed his complete competence, however, and some breath control that I haven't heard surpassed...
Until last week, the American Communist Party had pretended to be a homegrown movement, with no roots in Moscow. President Truman, who only three months ago had denounced the Communist spy investigation as a red herring, had the word to describe U.S. Communists. Said he: "I have no comment on the statements by traitors...
This sort of thing does not sit well with Washington's envious cave dwellers. One refers to her as "Mrs. Thing," claims she has "a hide like an elephant." Another summed up: "She's amiable, of course, but she's commonplace, that's the word-so full of deportment." Adds Virginia-born Lady Astor, a past mistress of the catty crack: "She gives enormous parties that nobody who's anybody really ought...
...think we still have a chance-not more. To understand this, you must understand the mind of young Germans today. They are not apathetic; they are extremely inquisitive, but they are unconvinced. Democracy is nothing more than a theory and a word to them. Very interesting, they say-now, what has it done for-Germany? Where is it? When the Western powers cannot even agree among themselves, which one is being democratic? You argue this out-but it takes time...
...South, double muscadine was a bedspread design, named for the leaf of the scuppernong-wine grape. "Rench" was the word for rinse, and "wropping" was the method of braiding pickaninny pigtails. In Mississippi at least, a perjured slave was subject to "have both your ears nailed to the pillory, and cut off, and receive thirty-nine lashes on your bare back, well laid on, at the common whipping post." Then as now, a cockleburr was regarded as a bad thing to get under a saddle...