Word: de
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...been spit out of his mouth." . . . The same saying is to be found in France: "C'est son père tout craché;" ". . . y reconnut man portrait tout craché," (Voltaire, Crépinade; see craché, Vol. I, p. 878, Dictionnaire de la Langue Française, edited by E. Littré; Paris...
...reported from Kentucky. . . . And, finally, in Uncle Remus, in "Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last," Joel Chandler Harris (the distinguished father, I assume, of our present correspondent) writes: "He had a wife en th'ee chilluns ole Br'er Tarrypin did, en dey wuz all de ve'y spit en image er Je ole man." It will be noted that Mr. Harris indicated the omission of the sound r in very with an apostrophe (as in the first example cited in this paragraph), but he does not indicate any such omission in the word spit...
...Fascist Grand Council for Rightist Spain was announced. The definite Cabinet duties of each member of the Grand Council had yet to be fixed. Among the five of its dozen members to be named last week was the 27-year-old daughter of Spain's late Dictator Primo de Rivera, Pilar...
...Cabinet of Premier Paul van Zeeland this week seemed to be reorganized under the leadership of Finance Minister Henri de Man and the resignations of its members were before King Leopold III. Many expected Economist van Zeeland to go to Basle and succeed the recently drowned Director of the Bank for International Settlements, M. Pierre Quesnay. Attacks of the Belgian Fascists or Rexists upon M. van Zeeland for continuing to receive emoluments from the National Bank of Belgium after he became Premier resulted in a parliamentary vote clearing van Zeeland (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante). But the blatant Rexist press...
Carrying along the same lines are the lectures to be given by Bernard De Vote on American history and civilization. These lectures also serve to further President Conant's program to encourage study in this field. Both of these series of lectures are valuable assets to the university not only for their inherent value as cultural contributions, but for their significance in the scholastic world as an advance toward the spread of learning beyond academic confines...