Word: ye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unmatched Record. Big Bill was the John Barrymore of the courts, and the crowds loved it, even when he hurled his racket skyward shrieking. "Ye gods! Is there no justice?" after a linesman made a close call against him. Hands on hips, defying all tennis convention, Big Bill would glower at the offending official and ask coldly: "Would you like to correct your error...
Thanks for a good article, [but] TIME forgot a great symbol of progress in Dixie. Remember the politicians who used to rave: "D'ye want your daughter to marry a Negro? Then vote for ole Buzz Drippo for the U.S. Senate." Where is Buzz Drippo today? He's joined the dinosaurs in the museums...
...older ones. When a boy becomes a "Grecian," i.e., gets ready to try for a scholarship to a university, he gets 14 large buttons and a coat with upturned velvet cuffs. The coats have yellow linings that date back to 1683, when the "lynnings . . . as well as ye petticoats" were dyed to discourage vermin...
...Some preachers have discovered a new verb which seems to have superseded the old ones [such as] agonize . . . follow . . . sacrifice. It is the lovely verb relax." In their restatements, the old biblical admonishments might go: "If any man will come after me, let him relax." Or: "Go ye into all the world and keep down your blood pressure...
...Ye Sow. In Plainfield, Ind., Farmer Raymond Heald got fed up with townspeople throwing beer bottles, tin cans and garbage in his fields, "gave them back what they'd been giving me" by dumping a load of garbage in front of the town hall, was acquitted of committing a misdemeanor by a jury which included eight farmers...