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...mere stump of a left arm. Honorably discharged but too beaten up to realize the fact. Ferdinand goes to London, where he makes a beeline for the French "colony" on the river ("That's what they call the Thames"). In a dockside pub he teams up with Boro, a sleazy French pianist "who was in the habit of wearing plum derbies...
...Stokes flew off from Teheran, the farewell was symbolically bleak. Save for the Minister of Roads and Communications, only bureaucratic underlings saw him off. The only official gift was a huge pail of caviar. Students standing by yelled, "Borol Boro...
...Bronx, Tri-Boro Motors Inc. offered an allowance of $500 "on any truck that will run, creep or crawl into our lot," or $300 on any horse, mule or goat traded in on the purchase of a new Ford truck...
Illustrating her point, the budgeteer recalled the difficulties of one pregnant young wife. hard pressed to meet hospital expenses from the $400 she had saved. She found, married life boro "no sacrifices." "We enjoy, if foe much...
...15th Century, fragments of obscure Indian tribes, having wandered across Asia and Europe, turned up in Britain. Englishmen thought the swarthy nomads were Egyptians, shortened the word to gypsies. Gypsies did not mind. To them all gorgios (nongypsies) were boro dinellos (big fools) to be tricked and preyed on by the jinni Romanis (clever gypsies). Except for the contacts inevitable in dukkering (fortunetelling), dooking gri (casting a spell on horses to lower their value and price) or drabbing baulor (poisoning a farmer's pigs so that the gypsies could buy the carcasses cheaply for food), gypsies wanted no part...