Word: boors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Derby that has been run 145 times at Epsom Downs, England, is a famous race, but not a fashionable one. You can say in an offhand way that you didn't have time to see the Derby this year without having people put you down as a boor. The King, for instance, didn't know till the last minute whether he would go down or not but when he looked out of the window and saw that there was a bright sun shining he decided that it might be fun. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Connaught...
...dialectic of laughter, from boor to baronet, is thus: shout, guffaw, laugh, chuckle, smile. Inferior forms of laughter would seem to be the titter, the giggle, the cackle, the roar, the snigger...
...sane Horace has discovered a new boor...
...boor, who enters a European theatre must tip the usher. At Parisian music halls the ushers, vociferously rampant, will, if not tipped, stand at one's elbow and cry: "Service! Service! SERVICE!" almost indefinitely.* Last week the publicity agent of the Parisian Usher's Association issued an explanatory bit of propaganda: 1) The ushers are not paid to usher. 2) Instead they pay 50 centimes (2?) a night to the management for each seat assigned tp them. 3) Therefore they must figure on a minimum tip of one franc (4?) from each person whom they usher into...
...Dutch for "farmer," a corruption of the English "boor," a coarse rustic...