Word: addenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anybody in the neighborhood is asked about Michael Reese, whose name is carved in bold stone above the main entrance, he has a hard time answering. "A German immigrant who made his fortune in California real estate," is the accepted version. The cynical have more colorful addenda. Reese (ne Ries) was a peddler who went to California in the wake of the Forty-Niners and, some say, made himself a stake by rolling gold-laden drunks as a sideline...
...public alarms, Georges Bidault, the diplomat with the Mona Lisa smile, announced that France had no intention of reneging on the EDC idea, which it had proposed in the first place. It considered its "protocols" to be not amendments to the treaty, said Bidault, but only "interpretive" addenda which need not be ratified, need not even cause any delay in prompt ratification of the treaty in the six West European Parliaments. What is more, said he, France is perfectly willing to consider changes in the "protocols" themselves...
...cons, doxies, hoboes and fingers stopped importing so much from abroad. Since then, U.S. cant has grown so rapidly that today it is "numerically larger than the British"-and still so wildly prolific that just before his book went to press, hardworking Lexicographer Partridge ordered a batch of addenda bound in to catch such sprouts, new to him, as winchell (a swindler's victim), boodled (loaded with cash), cooties' reveille (lights-out in the cells), hoochie-papping (stealing another man's girl), goof ball (marijuana smoker) and mouse-kick (watch-pocket...