Mrs Bradford, Caroline Raymond, Wayward Inc. discussed on A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over

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Show boxes Present boxes these really ornate chinese-made boxes you can put presence into to give to people says do how about that a lot of history behind that word of one good most seventies and i wanted most of my life with the official designation of come showers. And just you've really feel film. Don't on the history of the word not realizing actually from the port of what i noticed. How hong kong. And stu thank you so much for sharing those memories. Thank you all so much ever blessed night bye. Bye bye by well. If there's a word that you've been wondering about all these years we'd love to talk with you about it. So give us a call. Eight seven seven nine two nine nine six seven three or spill the whole story in email words at wayward radio dot. Org more about what we say and why we say it stick around for more support for a way with words comes from jack and caroline raymond proud sponsors of wayward inc. The nonprofit that produces and distributes this program. You're listening to away with words the show about language and how we use it. I'm grand grandparent and martha barnett pam spooner of denton texas used to work as a university reference librarian and she sent us photos of something. Really amazing that a colleague once found in a book it looks like a plain white professionally printed business card or a calling card and on one side in all capital letters it reads the ex mrs bradford says the ex mrs bradford and at the bottom written in ink is the word over in parentheses. So you turn it over and on the other side of the ex mrs bradford's card. Somebody wrote by hand in this beautiful old fashioned script. Meet me at the paramount theatre sunday afternoon. Oh wow this is a story there. What happened today. did they meet well. That's pam wanted to know. So in order they walk on and have a liaison somewhere right. I mean who would have a calling card like this printed in the first place right. This is a woman with some panache right. This woman fis airplanes. This is somebody who lives her own life to the fullest. She she tried marriage. It didn't work and now she's doing her own thing. And who was the recipient. Yeah was it a man. Was it a woman good question anybody or maybe it was just a an agent. Maybe it's just a business card. Maybe it was. Just somebody who. She's maybe she's in the film and she wanted to your latest pictures. Oh i'm just thinking that maybe some of you wanna wanna fill in the blanks. Here for us write a story about it so to recap on the front it says ex mrs bradford on the bottom. It says an handwritten inc over on the back. it says meet me at the paramount theatre. What sunday afternoon sunday afternoon. What's the.

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