Word: sink
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...container which smells of liquor is sufficient evidence to incriminate a man on the charge of having possessed liquor. This does away with the ruse of emptying liquor into a sink when a policeman raps on the door...
...militaristic regime, that one is led to condemn America's present day manifestations of patriotism. It is rather because America's future is as deeply concerned with world peace as any nations. But never can this be attained until such old grievances as the Lusitania are allowed to sink into oblivion...
...specifying word. It strengthens the language until that time arrives when its meaning has been so twisted and broadened that it becomes no longer respectable. Either it will escape this calamity and become a real word, or like the term "flapper", which originally was an apt expression, it will sink to the level of drab profanity...
...housewives of Iowa are practical women. They realize that garbage is an inevitable concomitant ok housekeeping, but they keep their garbage pails on the back porch or under the kitchen sink, out of sight. They realize that crime news is unavoidable in newspapers−indeed to some extent salutary for its purgative effect upon society−but they do not see that the front page is the logical repository for society's daily wastage−murder, arson, theft...
...time that Colonel Mitchell read in the Review of Reviews a character-sketch of himself by Clinton W. Gilbert, famed correspondent of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' newspapers, in which Mr. Gilbert painted 1) the "unseemly spectacle" of an Army general telling, in moments opportune and inopportune, "how he could sink the entire U. S. Navy with one hand" and 2) the "unseemly spectacle" of "conservatism and stupidity charged with the keeping of the walls of safety about our land...