Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albert B. Fall, whose name has something to do with oil, is suffering from pneumonia. Last week word flew about that he is going to run for Senator in New Mexico in 1928. He hopes to vindicate himself, it is said. Citizens with good memories recall that he had been a Senator before becoming Secretary of the Interior under President Harding...
...word was coined, "Funda-monkeyist," applied by the bill's friends to patient Bishop Charles Edward Locke of the Methodist Church, who replied, "This whole anti-Evolution business is getting tiresome . . . has no more to do with personal religion than the Pons Asinorum...
...Petting' and 'necking' are about the same; but girls prefer to describe it by the former word and youths by the latter...
...only the Chicago Company recognizes the value of opera in English (TIME, Oct. 4). The Met- ropolitan has scheduled The King's Henchman for March. So thoroughly English is it, say notices, that not a word of the lyrics but is derived directly from the Saxon tongue. The poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay, precocious young lady of Vassar, who published Renascence the same year she received...
...achievement. According to her host-companion Poet Arthur Ficke, "it begins on a high heroic plane and mounts steadily in dramatic interest. It is mag-nificent." It sings of an English King who despatched his bosom friend, centuries ago, to seek out the Thane of Devon, to bring back word whether the Thane's daughter is really as fair as tradition would have her. On All Hallows' Eve the ambassador beholds the beauty stealing timidly over the moor, her path lighted by a single torch, to test the superstition that thus a maiden may catch a magical glimpse...