Word: bewitching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zest to a wooer's conquest . . . but the Sultan was too mighty to fight for his prize. . . . The slave maiden was allowed a scanty choice of fascinating devices. However beautiful she might be, the three silent obeisances that she made as she entered the bridal chamber could not bewitch the master's senses by their eloquence- for the most part he did not notice them, for he was already...
...that very same year turned to journalism when he bought part-ownership in the local Western Mail. The turn of the Century found him in London, the proprietor of News Of The World. An insatiably curious man, with a reputation of being able to bewitch a stranger's life story from him in ten minutes, Publisher Riddell capitalized on the universal craving for information about crises in other people's lives. Few British dailies have Sunday editions, and in 1900 few dailies anywhere had learned the trick of scandalmongering as a circulation-builder. Published on Sunday only, News...
...results of the voting: Class of 1934 *John Herbert Dean 186 *Richard Glover Ames 154 *Brad ford Simmons 146 *Richard Palmer Waters, Jr. 108 *Roger Harper Martin 105 *Carl Albert Pescosolido 90 Alfred Bewitch Hallowell 88 Paul de Barsy de Give 84 Elwood Kimball Salls 68 Atreus Von Schrader, Jr. 66 Theodore Chase 65 Francis Howes Gleason 61 Henry Greenleaf Pearson, Jr. 60 Richard Bassett 58 George Huntington Damon 55 John Moore Morse 52 John Thomas Higgins 47 Class of 1935 *Ebenezer Francis Bowditch 226 *Herman Gundlach, Jr. 161 *Franklin Plummer Whitbeck 155 David Whitney Lewis 145 Charles Fuller Woodard...
...there was once a distinguished gentleman, known to all and sundry . . . but that, as Kipling says, is another story. Not that he has no interest in the vague and changing things which men call laws: the music of the spheres, and the glamour of the dusty night-court alike bewitch him. But the laws that govern men are most enticing. Horoscopes, new as they may be to Harvard, perhaps explain as well why Thou art Thou, as do the addled Viennese hiero-phants. Be that as it may, the rise of the Corsican, the fall of the Hapsburgs, even...