Word: publickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after a mere 256 years of suspended animation, the name, of the first paper had life again. Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick, got safely past Vol. I, No. 2. Under its new management, it saw no need to change its aims with the times: it would continue to expose any "malicious Raiser of a False Report," would work "towards the Curing, or at least the Charming of that Spirit of Lying, which prevails amongst...
...after most wars, stay-at-homes expected the worst of the returning soldier, "remembering a robbed beehive or stolen goose more vividly than life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." "We are become," wrote a pensioned officer, "not only the objects of abuse in the publick prints and called the Harpies and Locusts of the Country, but are even so obnoxious as to be Mobbed...
Colonel Williamson, an English land agent with two million acres to dispose of, dreamed of establishing a landed aristocracy in the most spacious European tradition. The Publick Universal Friend, a female embodiment of Christ on earth, lived and prophesied there with her seven handmaidens; she was determined that the land should become an American Canaan. A European fourflusher named Berezy made trouble with a deluded rabble he had brought with him from the gutters of Hamburg. The Maryland aristocrat Peregrine Fitzhugh freed his 40 slaves to found a settlement of free Africans. Simcoe, Governor of Canada, still had hopes...