Word: avast
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While pirate-costumed waiters whooped: "Avast, swabs!" and "Ahoy, landlubbers!" photographers climbed over everybody in search of shots and the band climbed down a rope from a hole in the ceiling. Everybody had a good drink but when they woke up the next noon, they found the Nazis were still in France and Hollywood was full of martial portents...
...Avast!" the cop in wonder cried...
...cheat, carries us back to the days of James First, when an impostor palmed himself off upon the people of London as a Turkish ambassador, or Chiaus. That the English learned some of their seamanship from the Italians is plain from the word mizzenmast (la mezzana), and the order avast! from basta! That the English taught the Italians to build railroads the traveller is informed when he hears il treno in Tuscany, and reads the word waggons in Naples,- i waggons-della prima classe. In the same way the word