Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course I gave my lectures in French for I know hardly a word of English. I have learned only one or two of the more common expressions such as: "Will you give me a kiss". Here his French interviewer interrupted M. Champion...
...Fitzsimmons made the solar plexus famous with his blow that earned him the crown. It's queer but no one but doctors had ever heard of the solar plexus before that scrap, but ever since he floored me with that left of his it has become a catch word in boxing. In spite of the fact that I held the title five years after that I really had my greatest fight with Jefferies in 1901. Fitzsimmons wouldn't give me a return fight so I had to wait until Jefferies took it away from him in order to get another...
Last week the April issue of the Ladies' Home Journal was announced with full-page newspaper displays which shouted: "Ring down the Curtain on the Obscene! Obscene books, obscene magazines, obscene newspapers and obscene plays [nice word, obscene-a word to get a kind of circulation with] are multiplying with astounding rapidity throughout every corner of the United States! [Exclamation marks are sometimes effective] ... Women's clubs, churches, teachers and all decent folk in general owe it to themselves to face the facts- the sinister facts, as set forth by Frederic F. Van de Water...
...benefit of any who have never heard Professor Edgell lecture--though that there should be any such seems scarcely credible--the Vagabond has but one word to say. He himself has been a rather constant attender at one of this gentleman's courses and he can truthfully say that he has never been disappointed. Not only has he never been disappointed, but with hardly an exception has been enthralled not only by the uninterrupted flow of speech which comes from the platform, but even more by the genius with which the kernel of each subject is laid bare without...
...poem structurally more successful and plot more clear--they do not mark the fundamental difference between Mr. Robinson and his predecessors. Both Malory and the earlier writers tell the story in terms of action; Mr. Robinson in terms of reflection. What they describe, he attempts to explain. In a word, his characters are self-conscious, fully aware of their situation and continually discussing it (the greater part of the poem consists of conversation) they are not the "possessed" lovers, consumed by a passion they do not attempt to understand, of the medieval story-tellers...