Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After reading your Miscellany column in the last issue of TIME (Aug. 20) I think it would be more fitting and proper to head the column with the word Morbidities, or words to that effect...
...this week's (TIME, Aug. 20) account of Reconstructor McAdoo's prancing at the recent Santa Barbara fiesta, the word "mare" was used in description of Mr. McAdoo's mount If the newsgatherer who wrote the story will look closely at the picture accompanying the write-up he will see that he should have used "stallion"' or gelding" (as the case...
...arch-Democratic New York World-perhaps as a matter of interest, perhaps as a sly play upon the superstitions of its readers -said: "Acceptance of the Frothingham residence as campaign headquarters was made on the same day that word was received that Mr. Frothingham had died suddenly on his yacht while cruising off the coast of Maine...
Instead of costing 40? (20? a 10-letter word), it would cost 52? (13? a 5-letter word), besides the cost of address and signature...
...Pancake's supposititious cable was written in the code of the Commercial Cable Co. (I. T. & T. subsidiary). This code consists of 5-letter words, which can be joined in pairs to enjoy the 10-letter rate. But it could be deciphered by anyone with a code catalog. If Mr. Pancake had wished to be cunning and sly, he might have agreed in advance to use the catalog in this way: Instead of sending the word OCDIV ("Have received no letter from you since . . ."), he might have chosen the fifth word following, OCEHE, and so on throughout the message...