Word: cul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Skyman, accompanied by George Faulkner, will sing arias by Handel, Mozart, Cul, and Hemberg...
There are a number of places about the University which might well be given a function in the local microcosm as parking lots, without interfering with traffic, or causing any other nuisance. The cul-de-sac which runs past McKinlock and Gore Halls could be used for overnight parking without difficulty if the police would promise immunity to those who use it. There is a great deal of empty space behind the Business School rather forlornly awaiting another period of prosperity, some already employed as a parking space, and the rest just begging for the expenditure of a few dollars...
...mongrel dog he was trying to save from being run over on Park Avenue, seemed irritable. Mr. Lenz waited impatiently while Mr. Culbertson superintended the laying of a heavy rug to prevent squeakings & squash-ings. Later he got up from the table, complained to the referee against Cul-bertson's "waste of time." Referees decided that, though Lenz magazine articles inveighed against "psychic" bids, and though this match is officially to follow the Lenz and Culbertson systems, a "psychic" bid by Lenz-Partner Jacoby was permissible. Later Lenz objected to a Culbertson breach of system?a partner's raise...
...studied sculpture under James Eraser and took a course at Manhattan's Art Students' League. In 1907 she set up a studio at the end of MacDougal Alley next to that of Daniel Chester French. MacDougal Alley is a cement-paved cul de sac in Greenwich Village, lined with little brick houses that once were the stables for the great houses on Washington Square. Mrs. Whitney certainly did not invent Greenwich Village as the centre of New York's art life, but her coming there attracted public attention to it. From the first her studio...
...would seem certain that graduates from prisons presided over by these "B. B. R's" will no longer call prison "stir," nor $1,000 "a grand" or use any of the rest of the argot of the underworld we now know. Rather we may expect "Chappie" to replace "Cul" as a title of address and "loot" to take the place of "swag." All of which will be quite a bit pleasanter to the car, we admit, but quite outre. New Haven Register...