Word: clameur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoyed your article about the Clameur de Haro in the Isle of Guernsey [TIME, May 8] . . . Perhaps you should have added some notes...
...shadowy world of loth Century legend, there were also the Duke Haroux and Childe Harolde, and the origin of the clameur probably is shared by some grouping or syncrisis of several of these noble characters...
...when Leo [Durocher] the Lip dashes onto the field to claim "Somebody done me wrong!"-or "On me fait tort!"-he is likewise raising the clameur, which is still known on the sport pages and the radio by a vestige of the original phrase: it's a "Hay Rube Bob !"-or a "Rhubarb...
...Lowest Dungeon. When the prayer was done, Tom gathered two witnesses, took them over to notify the bailiff, then bicycled along to file due notice of clameur with the greffe (clerk of court) and affix two five-shilling stamps. "Nothing more will be done," he told his family confidently that night at dinner, "until the case is decided in court...
...days, when crying Haro was more frequent (Tom's is only the eighth clameur to be raised since 1900), the penalty for losing a case was severe: 24 hours' confinement in the lowest dungeon of 14th Century Castle Cornet. The penalty nowadays is only a small fine. Twenty years ago, Alfred Machon was fined one shilling for a false clameur (TIME, March 3,1930). As Tom's case rested last week, however, the gloomier greybeards of Guernsey noted with interest that workmen were busy restoring the old castle's long-neglected dungeon...