Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mackerel in the moonlight, it stinks and shines and shines and stinks" (TIME, July 18), rather ineptly retains the stench but loses the shine of the original simile which eccentric John Randolph of Roanoke applied to Edward Livingston over a century ago: "Fellow-citizens, he is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. Like rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and stinks...
...Sirs: Re splendid article about Robert Williams Wood, issue June...
...meaning, of course, Englishmen's) clothes. Dress, said she, is worn by women: 1) to cover the body, 2) for beauty's sake, 3) for men's sake; by men: to advertise rank and position. Woolf on Englishmen's full dress clothes: "How many, how splendid, how extremely ornate...
...owes. If cotton is selling at io/ a Ib. or better, he may receive one or two hundred dollars. But he has an immense yearning for a store suit, a cotton dress for his wife, a few pretties for his children, perhaps a second-hand Chevrolet or a splendid, ancient Studebaker. So, either way he goes on living by The Book...
Although superior in rowing technique than the 1937 crew at this time, Bolles still looks forward to sharpening up the catch and smoothing out an imperceptible check. Probably the race today will prove a splendid opportunity for ironing out the rough spots...