Word: cante
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut, Montgomery cant' understand it, and the chief specialists can't understand it. They figured the medical officer's suspension of early morning calisthenics for the cold weather met with 100% approval from their Supply School charges. So great was surprise on learning that several dozen of the student officers have a daily volleyball game between 0700 and 0730 in the Cage. From all reports this number is increasing...
...certain Southern statesmen wage a ceaseless battle for their world of poll taxes, racial intolerance, lynchings and indiscriminate mockery of the Chief Executive. Why don't the Southern Senators secede from their party? If they did, at least they would no longer stigmatize the remaining Democrats with their cant, spurious oratory and hypocrisy...
...Slang & Cant...
...made of a "new brand of double talk (sample: 'Lady from Bristol' for 'pistol'). . . ." Rhyming slang, of which this is a specimen, has long been current among certain classes of English-speaking people, and the matter has been pretty thoroughly covered by students of slang, cant...
Best known of the arrested pastors is 45-year-old Kaj Munk, rector of Vedersoe in West Jutland. He is not only famed for his preaching ("like a rain of sparks from a lightning rod") but is also Denmark's No. 1 playwright (Cant, An Idealist, The Word...