Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strength of it out in English. By chance, Mr. Lin coln Colcord of Minneapolis heard of this work. Also, Mr. Colcord did not know Professor Rolvaag but he went to Northfield and suggested to Rolvaag that they get together on this translation. Colcord does not know a word of Norwegian but he and Rolvaag worked a year and a half, Rolvaag reading his manuscripts and trans lating sentence by sentence, Colcord putting it into the English language with the result that it was unquestionably one of the best pieces of translation that has been made of the English tongue...
...Coolidge and several of us other students were repeatedly grilled. The Faculty felt pretty sure it had the culprits, but failed to get a word out of Coolidge and the rest of us and it was never established who was guilty...
...pour tea, may I add just a word? Everyone knows that I do not speak but once in a while. Sometimes when at Senate ladies' luncheons I do not say a word. I want to say a word to you. Some of the ladies who are sitting with me have indicated that South Dakota has just come on the map this summer. It has always been...
Sequelae. 'Doorman McKenna was obliged at once to stand aside and let 15 frantic newsgatherers go tearing and tumbling down the corridors of the high school to transmit the twelve-word shock to an unsuspecting world...
Translations. "What did choose mean?" people asked. Reliable Vermonters were found who said it was a cautious colloquialism for "want." Funnyman Will Rogers and others declared it as foxy a word as an adroit politician ever selected. Columnist Heywood Broun thought it had "magnificent swank." Senator Bruce of Maryland, with Democratic irony, quoted Macbeth: "If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown...