Word: recoverable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate Winters was assiduously distributing his thimbles among Toledo females. On each thimble was emblazoned the legend: "SEW UP THE MAYOR'S RACE FOR WINTERS!" The clippings he pasted up on the front of his official headquarters?tales of recent Toledo crimes?to remind Toledo voters that Potentate Brown's...
Have your appendix out and recover.
In 1926 Frank Tinney, famed comedian, suffered a complete nervous breakdown. Speechless, gibbering, he seemed unlikely to recover. Last week he was singing and joking nightly at La Victorie night club, Atlantic City, N. J. Credit for the Tinney progress is due to Eddie Cassaday, oldtime minstrel and Tinney crony...
Impracticable is any special provision by TIME covering madness. Let Perpetual Subscribers who get mad, sell or give away their certificates. When the madness has passed, let them try to recover their certificates.?ED.
Most obvious of the indications of the lack of sympathy between this author and the modern world is his vocabulary. It includes the frequent use of archaisms and unusual words such as "rathe," "sonant," "unimpasted," which are not found in the average abridged dictionary. The attempt to recover the idiom...