Word: wordly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: By applying such a word as "cowardly" to the expression of an opinion by Mr. Shaw you merely make yourselves and your publication ridiculous and affect him no more than a cur in the gutter snapping at a passing mastiff. I have long since ceased to buy your so-called "magazine," but from the copies I see now and then in libraries and elsewhere I gather that a cheaply-sensational attitude is its present pose. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant...
...Under the clamorous claims of the U.S. drys, consolidated, President Hoover last week grew fretful. Through the press, anonymously he sent forth word that no spectacular or drastic steps would be taken in his law enforcement campaign. He proposed to proceed sanely, to instill in people a respect for all law by education and moral suasion. He sought to avoid specialization on the prohibition law. Wet observers credited him with a shrewd and nimble sidestep. Most embarrassed was Major Edwin B. Hesse of the Washington, D. C., police force, who, with impressive fanfare, had just...
...word, there is no real reason why anyone should buy "Leffing Ges" unless he particularly wants to do so. Perhaps, told over the radio by their author these things affect the risibilities: in cold print they affect the stomach...
...beneficent smile of official welcome, a corps of students, comprising 150 members of the Young Australia League, winds its way over the country "to see, to learn, and to make friends." The arduous moments at attention while the official representative presents the appropriate flag with the appropriate word, and the informal back slapping of local Rotarians may tend to obscure the professed view of the young adventurers...
Shaw. Said Mr. Shaw (in the course of a 1000-word essay): "To propose such a transaction to Mr. H. G. Wells is like offering the Archbishop of Canterbury a handsome cheque for dropping a recommendation of somebody's shoes or soap into his next sermon, or sounding the Astronomer Royal as to the possibility of keeping the clock back for half an hour during a big sale. ... Its acceptance would be the last depravity of corruption in literature. . . . For ... an author to accept payment from a commercial enterprise for using his influence to induce the public...