Word: boor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first issue, has been my Galahad-yes, that's mighty sticky, but leave me what's left of my girlish romanticism. Your articles have been fair, direct and intensely interesting, and now you, my Galahad, that I have cheered on in your quest for truth, have (oh, boor that you really are) spit in the Holy Grail. That tacky, smart-alecky corruption of the King and Queen's visit! Bad, bad taste...
...Boer" is the Dutch form of the English word "boor" in its original meaning-farmer. In the 1830s the Dutch farmers in South Africa decided they would rather live among Zulus and Basutos than live under the thumbs of greedy English traders. Accordingly they set out in oxcarts, migrated inland. Years later they were absorbed again by the spreading sponge of British rule which made them not-too-loyal citizens of the U. S. A. (Union of South Africa...
...poured on the creaking Rome-Berlin axis to keep it cool. But the alliance is unnatural. It is a faux ménage after all. The two people will never pull together. The Teuton looks down on a canaille of unwashed peasants; the Italian recoils from the Nordic boor whose barbarous jargon hurts Dantesque eardrums. The two flags cannot wave together for long. Compared with the noble Roman fasces, Hitler's Aryan swastika is a scrawl from a child's copybook...
...Noble Lady seemed to think "Old George" a boor and intimated as much to his face. Old enough to be her father, hoary Mr. Lansbury remained seated where Fate had placed him. Next day Viscountess Astor elaborately demonstrated what a lady she is by arriving early, taking her favorite seat, and then as Old George came in, rising with a sneer "to give the gentleman my seat." ¶ Observed with further distaste efforts by Scottish Laborite Jock McGovern to make his stubborn point that members of the Royal Family, considering the size of their private incomes, are paid too much...
...Lens, near Lille, France another case of metamorphosed hermaphroditism came to light last week. The affair began last Christmas when the parish priest noticed that Alice Henriette Acces, 16, member of the girls' choir, had imperceptibly changed from hoyden to boor. Henriette had a thin mustache. Her voice was mannish. And, were she dressed in boy's clothes, she would be indistinguishable from the bantlings of the mine where her father worked...