Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last but not least, let us spatter a brief word of praise upon F. M. Eaton '27 for his admirable rendering of a very difficult part--General Washington. First and always, he must maintain a dignity which will at no time seem ridiculous, even when he has to conduct a tete a tete with Miss Dashwood. The authors of the show have happily given him every opportunity to do "Washington justice, especially when he recites the Legend of the Durms, a serious dramatic monologue near the beginning of the second act. If the company are human, they, and especially Eaton...
...said neither he was a drummer. Can you beat that? ha. ha heard a bouncer once say to her Watch your dancing and she said to him, Watch it yourself and maybe you will lern sum thing. Ha. Ha. Well I must drop the winged word and aplie the moistened pickture. Asever, Clara...
King Alexander, in a word, was attempting to re-emulsify two factions as mutually repellent as oil and water. He succeeded so badly that Premier Pashitch and the rest of his Ministers resigned a few days later, leaving the situation profoundly embroiled...
...Jugoslavia" or "South Slavia" is a name coined to condense into one word the numerous petty states officially united as "the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes." Unmentioned in either title are Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Voyvodina, Medjumurje, the Island of Krk and the Community of Kastav, which are all included in this little Adriatic state roughly 500 miles long by 209 wide...
THOBBING?Henshaw Ward?Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50). "When a person THinks without curiosity, has an Opinion because he likes it, Believes what is handy?then he THOBS." Dr. Edwin Grant Conklin, able Princeton biologist, has called it, more simply, "wishful thinking." The inventor of the new word, excusably pleased with himself, hammers for nearly 400 pages to drive it into the language. Before he has done he admits that he is probably thobbing himself...