Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...please be advised that both Admiral Irwin and the party who thinks the Admiral is wrong are correct to some extent. But the real truth of the matter is that one sailor may call another a "gob," but since the return of the Fleet from the wonderful cruise to Australia he is more liable to use the Australian word and pronunciation and call his shipmate "Silor" with the "i" pronounced "eye." This entire matter should hardly merit all this discussion as it is our knowledge that it is rarely necessary to call the sailor at all-just the sounding...
Prudent, Canon Elliott expressed no opinion on these definitions. When persistent newsgatherers asked: "Isn't it true that in Australia 'Do you smooge?' is equivalent to 'How about a petting party?'" the Canon was again silent...
...invariable precaution against queasiness of the stomach when she is in expectancy of taking a sea voyage. The soupless royal meal was served for the benefit of the Duke and Duchess of York. On the morrow they were to embark aboard H. M. S. Renown to visit Australia and there open the new Parliament Buildings at Canberra.±I In their absence Queen Mary will care for "Baby Betty"** (Princess Elizabeth) their eight-months-old daughter...
...Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia, on his way home from London, had luncheon at the White House...
...pride in naming her school . . . in defending it against a collegian brother? 'A prophet is not without honor in his own country', and school spirit finds fertile soil in all undertakings such as this publication would surely be. Here, then, is an unlimited Alaska: and unplowed West; an ungrazed Australia. The tools are at hand; the fields stretch before us; where are the ploueers?" Well, where are they...