Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word of mine can cast a single ray of light upon this dark situation, I shall be profoundly thankful...
...brother of the late U. S. Senator Medill McCormick), were not mentioned because-great though they are in their profession-they are comparatively unknown to the public (outside of Chicago). "The McCormick & Patterson Daily News" as a phrase is no stronger, no more colorful than "The Daily News"; the words Patterson & McCormick add nothing to the reader's information. On the other hand, the words "Hearst Evening Journal" tell a story; the very mention of the word "Hearst" is more potent than several paragraphs of well written description...
Your issue of Dec. 7 savors of an ordinary newspaper and not of my pet periodical. Why serve us original readers with bilge water when we like the Vichy. I generally read TIME word by word including ads from cover to cover. This one didn't read nearly so well and I skipped...
...Then there is the American Negro probably the most slang productive race in the world. It was the Southern darky who first spoke of his tired and aching feet as 'dogs'. This word has gone through a hundred stages of development and its ramifications and embellishments are to be found in the daily conversation of many people today. Slang is the effort to economize in the use of words--to make a single one do the work of several sentences--as well as to be funny...
...duties. The last sentence of his very broken and totally unintelligible discourse sounded like some remarks about my 'old man,' so I replied 'So is your old man' and the expression started. As you can see the emphasis was, in its first use, on the third word...