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...unfortunate name for a force in a fight where the enemy accused the U.S. of trying to fasten the imperialist yoke on Asia, but straight out of the Navy's alphabet. "Yoke" is Navy...
...Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women; James Whitcomb Riley's "Perfesser John Clark Ridpath, A.M., LL.D., T-Y-TY." The TYTY was a bit of Riley humor. Since schoolchildren used to spell by syllable (e.g., PURITY, p-u-r-PUR; iI; t-y-TY), the alphabet after the "perfesser's" name brought forth from Riley the old classroom response...
Part-Cherokee, part-Irish Johnnie Lee Wills recorded it (for Bullet Records), and last week just about everybody in the U.S. seemed to be going through the alphabet. Rag Mop was at the top of the hit parade...
Philip Maguire, 44, of Plainfield, N.J., made his entrance into Washington as a young lawyer in the NRA. From there he marched through the Government's alphabet of bureaus. He helped work out the food-stamp plan. He served on WPB. spent three years in the Army, returned to serve on the CPA, went to Greece with the first military mission. He stayed to direct Greek trade and commerce, then returned to take charge of the Administration's program for relieving unemployment. He is the President's expert on public-works programs...
...school year moved into full swing, Hungarian students of all ages were struggling with the outlandish Cyrillic alphabet, the baffling prodigies of Russian grammar. Last term, when language courses were still optional, 53% of them chose German, 30% English, 29% French, and only 3% Russian. Now, with the study of Russian compulsory in all grades of primary and secondary schools, pupils are required to spend more time learning "the language of socialism" than any other subject except Hungarian language and literature...