Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word of deep appreciation for the highly intelligent letter of Mr. Frank Vincent Waddy, on the subject of our vituperate critic, Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse. Mr. D. D. seems to have brought the skies crashing down upon his head...
Sirs: You probably are familiar with and have published the following quotation from Sophocles : "Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all." In the quotation, which I fairly stumbled across by the purest accident, the word time was spelled with...
...last week, Filipinos had an opportunity to cheer, to triumph. For word came that President Coolidge himself had suggested that the Islands be taken from the jurisdiction of the War Department, that military control be replaced by civilian control. Along with this news, however, came the saddening information that the President thought that the Department of the Interior would be the logical guardian of the Islanders. This plan did not at all please the Filipinos, who saw; in it a step toward making the Islands perpetually a U. S. territory. Filipinos want to be put under the State Department...
...station told that the invading air navy was dropping poison gas bombs, flame throwers, and showers of poisoned darts. For ten minutes the vision of horror and destruction was conjured up with more and more terrifying realism. Then Station 5-CL blandly announced that there was not one word of truth in its "program," which had merely been put on "because of complaints that the usual features offered by our regular artists have been growing stereotyped and dull...
...game is to take a word-for example, "crazy"-and try to name sets of well known lunatics, asylums, slang words meaning "crazy," madhouse apparatus and perhaps a few causes of insanity, each set composed of words beginning with letters in "crazy." Thus, "c" words in some of the different sets above suggested could be "Caligula," "cuckoo," "catnip." Under "a" could come, "authors of Guggenheim," "addled," "amusement books...