Word: autobus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have heard this story five times in different parts of New England. Yesterday I read in the latest copy of The New Yorker-from the letter from Paris-the following: ". . . A gipsy woman got into an autobus and sat down next to a Parisienne who moved her handbag out of the gipsy's reach. The gipsy said, 'Why do you do that when you have only 18 francs in your bag?' The woman had exactly that sum. Then the gipsy told each of the other passengers how much he or she had, down to the last...
Sportswriters agreed that "rugby américain" would never catch on in France because "it was too much like an autobus collision." The part of the game the Parisians liked best was the huddle, "when they gather to cheer . . . before each play." At the opening game confused spectators, uncertain when to cheer, decided after a few plays that the huddle was the logical one. The equally confused U. S. footballers, who-unable to hear their quarterbacks-misunderstood their signals, wondered whether the acoustics would be better in Toulouse, Marseille, Bordeaux...
...ribbon stretching along the Nile from the broad delta at Alexandria to the narrow rocky cataracts of the Sudan border. Along that green cobra live 16,000,000 people, of whom 2,000,000 last week took advantage of fare reductions to journey to Cairo by train, steamer, felucca, autobus, camel and donkey. They went to celebrate the wedding of Farouk, their 18-year-old king, to Farida, meaning "unique," his 17-year-old Queen...
Although A-to-Baggage, as the editors point out, is composed chiefly of abstract words, it contains many U. S. technical coinages like airbrake, airline, automobile, autobus, autocar, autotruck. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes thought up the word anaesthetic in 1846. Appendicitis was introduced by another U. S. physician, Reginald Heber Fitz, 40 years later. Alumnus was taken directly from Latin about 1696, and in 1882 Doglover Albert Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed...
...such tips on how to have fun. A fat, nervous spinster whose business slogan is "It's too, too divine!" she went from San Francisco to Europe to teach boom-time U. S. millionaires and miscellaneous princelings how to have Murder Parties, Come-As-You-Were-When-the-Autobus-Called Parties, Scavenger Parties, Come-As-Somebody-Else Parties, Come-As-Your-Opposite-Parties, Come-As-the-Person-You-Like-Best Parties. Elsa Maxwell gave them, somebody else paid for them. After the crash, she returned to Manhattan via Hollywood, to cash in on her amazing reputation. Last week...