Word: gold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Collinsville, Ill., a contest was held on "Homecoming Day" to find the biggest liar in Southern Illinois. A $20 gold piece was awarded one Ernestine Smith, editress of the Columbia (Illinois) Star. The lie: her auto fell into a mudhole, sank in three weeks to Singapore, China...
...Fenway--"Gold Diggers of Broadway...
...same method might be used to correct other lovers of cacaphony. Those who insist on letting their radios loose at full blast in what should be the dead of night could be cheerfully sentenced to an eternity of bad jazz. For the Gold Coast bottle-throwers and week-end revelers, a hell of raucous outcries, accompanied by an undertone of breaking glass could well be prescribed...
...Harvard's forward passing game which sent it into a 13 to 0 lead in the first half and then snatched almost certain victory from the powerful Cagle-led combination. Pregame reports indicated that the Army line was weak, but the Gold forwards outrushed the Crimson wall, bottling up the University running plays time and again. With six men in the line and two men backing it up closely, the West Pointers smashed the heralded Harvard laterals, but it was the threat of this play which made the Crimson aerials go. Twelve forwards were hurled and seven were completed...
...example, the word "soiree" is used as a noun to mean an unpleasant task, and as a verb to mean "to inconvenience." It started back in the dim ages when officers' wives used to give evening parties where the poor military guests suffered in garotte collars weighed down with gold trolley cable. It soon came to be said that anything unpleasant was as bad as a "soiree." From this one can see readily the evolution of the word to its present meaning. Other expressions such as "Sammy," "spoony," "B.J.," and "B.S." have developed from just as obscure origins...