Word: coughings
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...Appeals. And last week, while back pay piled up faster than a check in Mr. Billingsley's club, the highest court in the State cracked down on Mr. Billingsley's hopes. It upheld the original findings. Mr. Billingsley would indeed have to take his men back, cough up. The tot to date...
...characterized by a dentalized t (pronounced with the tip of the tongue between the teeth), by an excessively hissing s, by heavy ng sounds (e.g., "making gah" for "making a"); and by closing and diphthongizing certain vowels, so that "ask" sounds like "ay-usk" (or "ay-ust"), and "cough" sounds like "co-uff." The uneducated New Yorker seems to say "shoik" for "shirk" and "cherce" for "choice." Actually he uses the same sound, intermediate between ir and oi, for both words...
Innumerable stories have been told about his scholarships and his personality. When he taught his famous course, English 2, one of his rules was that no student should cough in his classroom; another that no one could enter the room with his hat on. He invariably marched straight across Harvard Square, regardless of traffic, staying the onrushing trucks by flourishing his cane...
Like a slow ribbon of cigar smoke in a smoky room, a story curled around the House of Representatives last week. It got in Congressmen's eyes, made them cough and blink. The story was as hard to take as a Wheeling stogie, and like a stogie, it carried a kick...
...ministers...." Clearing his throat with a dry little Scottish cough, Baron Tweedsmuir began droning out a Speech from the Throne which suddenly drew from Parliament a great gasp of surprise. "My ministers are of the opinion," read the Governor General, "that the effective prosecution of the war makes it imperative that those who are charged with the grave responsibility of carrying on the Government of Canada should, in this critical period, be fortified by a direct and unquestioned mandate from the people. My advisers, accordingly, having regard to existing conditions and the stage of the life of the present Parliament...